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Investing in Asia conference opens for business

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... capabilities and expertise of local fund managers, understanding and managing issues associated with local regulation, compliance, governance, sovereign risk and asset custody." Asian funds management also has some subtleties that Australian participants ...

Trust tax reform can be split

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
... divergent views on the direction reform should take, there is general agreement from industry on reducing complexity and compliance issues. Treasury is currently working on an options paper to elaborate on reform models, including issues such as streaming ...

US releases model FATCA agreement

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
... agreements on FATCA, a step that the Financial Services Council says brings resolution of the US-Australia potential compliance problem one step closer. The model agreement will serve as a template from which other intergovernmental agreements will be ...

Cormann criticises trust reform delay

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
... trust tax law for something robust enough to serve future generations. We want something people can understand, where compliance is relatively straightforward and that offers efficiency savings as well. "The complexity of the current regime is almost ...

BlackRock expands fixed income team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... the current environment. Prljaca joins from BlackRock's Singapore office where he was head of Asia Pacific portfolio compliance. He will report to Craig Vardy, head of indexed and enhanced portfolio management.

AMP updates Ascend SMSF

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... customers. "The new service offers more features at a lower price and improves the automation of management reporting and compliance obligations so advisers can spend more time with their clients," he added. The new Ascend service is being rolled out ...

Provisio SOA tool can test 'reasonable basis'

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... Provisio Technologies. The tool can accesses the details of over 500 retail and industry funds, and it "satisfies all compliance requirements", said Cameron O'Sullivan, director of Provisio Technologies. "The idea behind Super Comparison was to let the ...

Model FATCA intergov agreement imminent

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... nuances of the Australian super system, it has failed to qualify for exemptions within the draft Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) regulations released earlier this year, creating local concerns about the burden of reporting on members and the ...

Industry funds ride SMSF wave

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... the investment related controls which are principally the reason people move into SMSF type arrangements, without the compliance and administration headaches that come with the responsibility of running a fund." "For many people wanting that control ...

StatewideSuper re-signs Bravura

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... "Our superannuation software combined with our clearing house capability provides StatewideSuper with a SuperStream compliance solution for the processing of contributions electronically. "This allows them to receive contributions from their employers ...