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Non-TFN tax attack

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2007
The 31.5 per cent tax penalty to be applied to super funds without member tax file numbers (TFN) risk massively damaging the retirement incomes of members who either don't know about the rule change or who can least afford the tax hit. Raising the dire ...

MGI launches Queen Street Partners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
The newly-formed Macquarie Global Investments (MGI) has appointed a Macquarie outsider to head its first venture, Queen Street Partners, an institutional boutique investment firm. The group has appointed Steven Vaughan, formerly the head of Melbourne ...

AXA locks and loads

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2007
AXA is using its global muscle to provide superannuation members with a fund that can lock in gains each year, just like a capital-protected managed fund, and potentially, on a weekly or monthly basis in the future. The Australian launch of North, a ...

Aberdeen expands BDM team

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2007
... positions. Koromilas will be regional sales manager for New South Wales, Queensland and ACT. Con will report directly to associate director of business development, Stuart James. Jollie will be sit at the Australian business development desk. He spent ...

Investing by 2020

... new technologies and competition transform what is considered alpha today to beta tomorrow, said Harry Liem, senior associate at Mercer's investment consulting. Liem has written a book titled '2020 Vision: Investment Wisdom for Tomorrow' that looked ...

Macq goes global

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
Macquarie's continued push into overseas markets has helped the group post a record half-yearly profit of $1.06 billion after tax. The results are a 45 per cent increase over the group's $730 million profit for the same period last year. The profit ...

ASIC to sue Westpoint

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is to take legal action against Westpoint, and planner groups that recommended Westpoint products, on behalf of investors who lost a combined $320 million when the property group collapsed ...

Volatility fails to dampen super returns

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
... in the default space was Telstra Super's balanced option, which delivered 16.3 per cent over three years. Rainmaker associate director of research, Andrew Keevers, said the strength of the performances continued to be driven by the Australian share market ...

Assets growth kills alpha: State Street

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
Assets under management (AUM) growth can have a significant impact on alpha generation unless models are altered to deal with capacity issues, according to State Street Associates vice president Simon Myrgren. Myrgren said State Street had developed ...

Cairns planner jailed for fraud

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
A Cairns financial adviser has been sentenced to eight years jail after pleading guilty to 14 fraud charges involving almost $1 million of client money. The Cairns District Court sentenced the man, Piet Cornelius Walters, on October 30, after he pleaded ...