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More super funds to introduce performance pay: survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... per cent drop in 'overall increase' of remuneration year-on-year. The survey excludes the remuneration of super fund trustees. McGuirk said that they are looking to release that in a separate governance and remuneration report out around June this year. ...

Accounting bodies launch SMSF learning tool

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... Chartered Accountants in Australia and the National Institute of Accountants to develop a free online training tool for SMSF trustees. The tool, Self Managed Superannuation Fund Trustee Education Program, is a public interest initiative of the Joint ...

NSW man sentenced for early super release

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... ensure his SMSF (Kassongo Superannuation Fund) was maintained in accordance with the sole purpose test, which prohibits trustees maintaining self managed super funds, for any purpose other than to provide retirement benefits for members. A trustee who ...

Av Super chair wins 2010 Trustee of the Year Award

AIST RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has awarded Av Super's outgoing chair David Leggo as this year's Trustee of the Year. Leggo thanked his team, including the three chief executives he had worked with during his decades of work in the ...

Noonan named AIST president

AIST RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) has appointed Gerard Noonan, chair of the $2.6 billion Media Super and former AFR editor, to the new role of AIST president. Noonan replaces Ian Robertson who has resigned after three years ...

Asset consultants under fee pressures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... Watson and Sovereign Investment Research - braved the limelight at the CMSF to answer questions in the minds of many trustees: are they worth their paycheques? Pregnant pause, which facilitator Michael Dwyer, First State Super chief executive, took as ...

SMSFs breach less ATO rules

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
Self managed super fund trustees are heeding the Australian Taxation Office's warning about breaching fund rules, but ongoing problems - including giving personal loans to members - continue to plague the sector. According to the latest Partners Superannuation ...

Open letter to trusted trustees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
Trustees should use their collective muscle to punish investment managers and listed company directors who are robbing investors blind through capital raisings and deals that ultimately destroy shareholder value, said a governance expert. Dean Paatsch ...

Hands off SMSFs, warns assoc

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... should be no change to the current practices in relation to investment independence and to the minor limitations placed on trustees." The AIA said they want no government prescribed educational requirements of trustees, no government-prescribed asset ...

On the shoulders of giants

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
Today's generation of super trustees are reaping the fruits of the Labor movement that started modern super decades ago - now it's their turn to give something back by solving the next set of challenges involving superannuation adequacy, scale and fees. ...