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WA super administrator and fund announce admin agreement

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2004
Australian superannuation administrator Superpartners and multi-sector industry fund Westscheme, announced today they have successfully renegotiated an administration agreement. The new agreement has introduced additional services for Westscheme, Superpartners ...

Super compliance to ease: PM

Prime Minister John Howard announced changes to the superannuation guarantee arrangements last night, removing the need for small business to report quarterly superannuation contributions to employees. Announced as part of a paper, Committed To Small ...

New Zurich Financial Services Australia chief executive

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2004
Zurich Financial Services Australia (ZFSA) on Friday announced it had appointed former Pathos Partner chairman and chief executive Tom Brown as the chief executive, succeeding John Butler. Brown commenced his career at Royal Insurance Group in Australia ...

Rainmaker launches into DIY super research

Rainmaker Information completed the purchase of Jenkins Superannuation Services yesterday, a specialist researcher in the Self Managed Funds and the DIY provider space. According to Rainmaker data, the DIY space is the fastest growing segment in the ...

New super laws pass through parliament

Laws closing existing MP's generous superannuation scheme were passed by parliament but sitting MP's have retained their current superannuation arrangements. The bill was passed through the Senate after Labor chose not to insist on its proposed amendment ...

S&P to monitor APRA probe into Zurich

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2004
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's said today it was monitoring the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's (APRA) formal review of certain past reinsurance arrangements made by Zurich Australian Insurance. APRA confirmed on Tuesday that it was investigating ...

Labor, coalition combined to defend current MP super benefits

Labor and coalition senators combined to resist the passage of legislation through the Senate yesterday that would have seen superannuation entitlements for MP's wound back levels in line with community standards. A Senate Inquiry was told last month ...

ASIC takes Market Traders to court

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2004
Australia's corporate watchdog has begun legal proceedings against Market Traders Instituted Australasia for conducting a financial services business without a license. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has started proceedings ...

Macquarie confirms it wants to take over RG Capital Radio

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2004
Regional Media, a member of Macquarie Bank, today announced it wanted to acquire all the shares in RG Capital Radio in a deal worth $173 million. Regional Media would pay $3 per share under a proposed scheme of arrangement. Once the transaction was ...

Choice of Funds legislation gets the nod, and industry approval

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2004
The decision by the Australian Democrats to support the Federal Government's Choice of Funds legislation has drawn widespread support from the superannuation and investment industries. The Australian Democrats confirmed to the Financial Standard on ...