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Tax forum tackles wealth management issues

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... the current, excessively low concessional contribution cap represents a significant barrier to voluntary savings under pillar three (voluntary savings) of our three-pillared retirement income system," said Andrea Slattery, SPAA chief executive. The Financial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... Composite shot up 82.26 points (3.32 per cent) to 2,562.11. The US Commerce Department reported that consumer spending, a pillar of the world's largest economy, rebounded 0.8 per cent in July, after a 0.1 per cent dip in June. Investors also got an unexpected ...

New software can make financial advice hub for super fund administrators

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... super funds. Jan Kolbusz, managing director of Decimal, said his team had been beta-testing the software with administrator Pillar, to make it work at the administrator level. The new version of Decimal, In-One, provides a single point of compliance ...

Super now the fourth pillar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
Superannuation is now the fourth pillar of Australia's social and economic life and the national disability insurance scheme will develop to become the fifth, said minister Bill Shorten at a major superannuation function at Parliament House in Canberra ...

Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... US Treasury debt had been widely regarded as the safest security in the world, rated AAA. The S&P downgrade shook that pillar of confidence by reducing its official opinion of US creditworthiness to AA+, below that of AAA-ranked countries such as Britain ...

LICs benefit from FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
The impending loss of trailing commissions for managed funds has made listed investment companies more attractive by leveling the playing field, an industry insider said yesterday. John Robinson, chairman of Global Mining Investments (GMI), a listed ...

Russell loses NZ managing director

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... the company had achieved industry fund business growth after winning Prime Super's administration services business from Pillar. Its in-house administration platform also went live to aviation industry members through AvSuper last week, Russell said. ...

Media Super wants corporate marriage

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... capabilities to make it more attractive to corporate funds. In February, Media Super switched administration providers from Pillar to Mercer so it could add more services to its system such as in-house telephone financial planning. It was today revealed ...

Super future hangs on High Court decision

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... Garcia, policy and regulatory manager of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees said the case attacked an entire pillar of the superannuation industry. "The super guarantee is the basis of the system," he said. The case was heard last month ...

Russell moves into industry fund admin

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... industry super client after signing an agreement to take over the management of Prime Super's administrative services from Pillar Administration. The change will take effect from January 1 next year. The win is a strategic shift for Russell which is ...