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Super trustees new cloud solution

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
Superannuation trustees have been given a new office solution in a bid to create more cost-effective processes, with the product given the stamp of approval by Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST). The Trustee Office Solution, launched ...

Ansett trustees make a move

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
Super trustees for failed airline Ansett will finally issue an interim distribution statement to members of the Ansett Residual Superannuation Fund, some ten years after the collapse of the company. In the next six to eight weeks, up to 11,000 ex-Ansett ...

Trio victims turn on planners

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
Self-managed super fund trustees left without compensation from the Trio fraud debacle have turned on their former financial advisers. About 100 investors are suing defunct financial planning firm Tarrants Financial Consultants, reportedly on the grounds ...

Trustee fury prompts SMSF compo rethink

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
The peak self-managed super fund association wants the law to be changed to allow compensation for their trustees as anger mounts over the Trio fraud case. Affected SMSF trustees are outraged that APRA-managed super fund members will be fully compensated ...

$55 million for Trio super fraud victims

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... compensation. Peter Burgess, technical director of the Self Managed Super Fund Professional's Association (SPAA), said SMSF trustees had redress through the court system, while acknowledging this was often difficult due to cost, time and dubious outcomes. ...

Bendigo aims to empower planners

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... been created to align its portfolio of offerings, including leveraged equities, Adelaide Bank wealth deposits, Sandhurst Trustees, Victorian Securities, Bendigo Financial Planning and Insurance, with its retail bank which has 1.4 million customers. The ...

Fincorp chief handed reduced jail term

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... that will include holders of unsecured debt has now been negotiated between the law firm Slater & Gordon and Fincorp's trustees, Sandhurst Trustees Limited, which should see over 5000 investors compensated.

Funds to talk insurance

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... in Sydney this week. Damien Green, head of the Australian arm of the pan-Asian life insurance group, said super fund trustees needed to engage with members through technology and education - not just by setting a minimum level of default cover. Green ...

Super future hangs on High Court decision

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... legislation that was constitutional. Tom Garcia, policy and regulatory manager of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees said the case attacked an entire pillar of the superannuation industry. "The super guarantee is the basis of the system," ...

Smaller banks seeking platform independence

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... Tasmania's MyState Financial has signed a deal with Powerwrap to provide a new investment platform for its Financial Planning Trustees financial planning business, rather than use its incumbent provider Asgard, a Westpac subsidiary. Using Praemium's ...