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IOOF secures strong advice channel with SFGA bid

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
The IOOF bid to acquire all of SFGA shares would result in a non-aligned advice business larger than those of NAB, Westpac and ANZ. IOOF offered 0.104 shares for each SFGA share, which implies a value of $0.90 per SFGA share. The SFGA Board unanimously ...

Invesco appoints head of sales from BT

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
Invesco Australia has appointed a former BT Investment Management executive as its new head of sales. Eben Bowditch was formerly a senior institutional business development manager at BT Investment Management and will now focus on building Invesco's ...

BOE qualifies for World Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
Anything you guys can do, I can do better... If the Fed, BOJ, ECB and PBOC could do it - forward guiding markets that monetary policy would remain easy (easier next month in the case of the ECB) - why couldn't the BOE? Yes it could! By most indications ...

SPAA applauds tax changes to excess contributions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
The government will allow individuals to withdraw superannuation contributions in excess of the non-concessional contributions cap made from 1 July 2013, it has said in the budget. It said that any associated earnings in these excess contributions may ...

Delay in SG rise 'disappointing', says industry

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
The government will delay the staggered increase of the superannuation guarantee (SG) to 12% for an extra year, it has revealed in the 2014/15 budget. On 1 July 2014, the SG will go up to 9.5% and will remain at that level until 2018, when it will rise ...

Government establishes superannuation fund for the Australian Defence Force (ADF)

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
The government will establish new superannuation arrangements for people joining the Australian Defence Force (ADF). As part of the new arrangements ADF members will be able to choose which superannuation fund they belong to and, for the first time ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

Madam Speaker, I move that the Bill for the Budget be now read a second time. Our future depends on what we as a nation do today. For our children, for our seniors, for individuals, for families, for our disabled and for our frail, for all of us, the ...

Businesses ignorant of SuperStream requirements

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
Almost 50% of businesses have limited or no knowledge of the SuperStream requirements, a survey conducted by AttachA(C) Software has found. From 1 July 2014, businesses with more than 20 employees will start using the SuperStream standards for sending ...

Equip to launch pension version of MySuper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
Superannuation fund Equip will launch a retirement phase version of MySuper, called 'Equip MyPension', on 1 July this year, chief executive Danielle Press has revealed. The product is designed to be a default pension fund for members in the MySuper ...

YBR poised to acquire mortgage aggregator

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
Wealth management firm Yellow Brick Road (YBR) will grow its distribution channel with 700 new mortgage broker groups, following the acquisition of Vow Financial Holdings. YBR is set to acquire the mortgage aggregator following the board's acceptance ...