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Super fees jump triple inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
... Keevers said while fee increases last year were driven by rising administration costs due to the introduction of super choice and FSR compliance, this year's fee increases are driven by rising investment costs as fund's adopt more sophisticated investment ...

Kiwibank fined over lack of disclosure

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
... default super funds for the KiwiSaver retirement savings scheme. Meanwhile, in Australia the peak consumer advocacy group CHOICE has published an analysis of similar fee disclosure problems with currency conversion on credit card transactions among Australian ...

Centric to improve the health of doctors

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007
Like many professionals, doctors fail to adequately plan for their retirement despite their healthy incomes, a condition Centric Wealth is planning to remedy. Paul Cooke, a Centric adviser who specialises in offering advice to doctors and medical practitioners ...

China's market party gets louder

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007
... per cent said they intend to invest in stock and funds. With banks offering at best 3 per cent on savings, for them the choice is an easy one - for China's Government it's a frightening trend. Last week Goldman Sachs issued a report warning that optimism ...

AIST against participating employer rule change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2007
... agreements for various commercial reasons." Several superannuation consultants have said that the rule change will boost super choice take-up and will simplify superannuation administration for employers, particularly those in small and medium sized ...

Super choice Budget boost

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2007
... investment fund that reserves earnings payments for the higher education and research sector. A crucially significant super choice initiative, however, pointed out the Greenfields specialist financial services legal group, is that there will be law changes ...

Elite investing strategies ready for download

It's not available in Australia just yet but in the US, a new research company is offering mum-and-dad investors and financial planners access to data that reveals the investment secrets of high net worth investors. Robert Huebscher, the founder of ...

ASFA develops standardised super fund data forms

ALEX DUNNIN, HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2007
... our members too," Whittaker said. The pro-active initiative highlights how the retailisation of superannuation through choice of fund and more open competition has leveled the playing field between the superannuation sectors as super funds are now routinely ...

Market volatility, rising AUD hits super funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2007
Volatile stock markets and the surging Australian dollar are taking their toll as super fund returns trim back to just over 10 per cent for the 12 months to end March. The size of the slowdown is significant - just one year ago funds were delivering ...

Adelaide Bank goes mobile with Microsoft

... Over 250 Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 devices have been rolled out across Adelaide Bank's mobile workforce. The phones of choice were the i-mate SP5 and i-mate KJam. The bank said it chose these products because they meet the different needs of its executives ...