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Broken 'contribs law' needs fixing: SPAA

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
... super funds were charged a 93% tax rate on excess contributions by the Australian Tax Office, even though it was an honest mistake. "There is no shortage of evidence to show the system is not working," said Burgess. He said that the current system - ...

It's happening

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013

Risk control software targets HFTs

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
Global trading platform provider InfoReach claims its new software can significantly reduce the risk of high frequency trading systems going haywire. The group says that recent multi-million dollar losses in the capital markets, such as the so-called ...

Manual corporate actions processing costly: DST

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
Mistakes, delays and sub-optimal investment decision making associated with the manual processing of corporate actions is costing Australian investors millions of dollars annually. This was the missive delivered by Geoff Harries, global head of asset ...

Understand borrowing laws warns ATO

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... property is held in the individual's name rather than the trustee of the holding trust," Quigley said. "Another common mistake is gearing in a related unit trust, which is not allowed under the law." It's up to trustees to make sure that their borrowing ...

Avoid estate planning mistakes

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... issues to be considered, said Hacker, who is also an accredited specialist in wills & estates. "Probably the most common mistake I see is to do with superannuation, where people attempt to directly distribute superannuation assets through a Will," she ...

Barclays cops $80,000 fine

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
... sent e-mails to the Barclays Singapore office, alerting the error and requesting advice on the best way to correct the mistake. In determining the appropriate penalty in this matter, the Markets Disciplinary Panel(MDP) noted that the unauthorised withdrawal ...

Trading mistake forces Indian exchange crash

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
A $US125 million trading mistake last week caused India's National Stock Exchange to briefly crash, triggering a trading halt and a 15.5% fall on the main index. Mistakes made by a local brokerage in placing orders, saw the exchange's Nifty index fall ...

Retail MySuper to put NFPs on back foot

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012
... will result in an unwillingness to consider strategies that incur higher costs to the detriment of diversification. "A mistake that is often made is to assume that this discussion under the heading of MySuper is all about driving down the cost of providing ...

Brokerage domination chokes competition: Paritech

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
The net effect of the domination a handful of large players have over Australia's brokerage market is cheap brokerage fees, but expensive administration and little innovation. That's according to independent player Paritech, whose chief executive Rick ...