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Instos target water usage

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... managers representing more than $2 trillion in assets including Souls Fund Management and Aviva Investors has sent a letter urging 100 major multinational company chief executives to carefully manage their water usage. The CEO Water Mandate initiative ...

Complaints on the rise: FOS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is urging financial services providers to invest more in staff and systems to deal with client complaints after it found a high 23 per cent increase in the number of new disputes this year. FOS has released its ...

Trustees should adopt system-wide policies: Sherry

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... house system is only one of many government measures that Senator Sherry hopes to implement during his tenure. He is also urging the industry to reduce the number of Lost Super accounts and help their fund members consolidate their super. On last count ...

ATO security blunder sparks review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... Although the courier received the CD, it was not delivered to the ATO. As a result, tax commissioner, Michael D'Ascenzo is urging trustees who receive a letter to take on the new tax file number to ensure their details are protected. There is no evidence ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... volume of 11,941 contracts. CMC Markets senior dealer, Matthew Lewis, said US President George Bush's television address urging Congress to approve the Government's proposed rescue plan for the financial industry had buoyed local financial stocks, but ...

Planners must alter proposition: Murray

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
Investor behavioural expert, Nick Murray, is urging financial planners to change their value proposition and focus on managing client behaviour, stating it could potentially boost their client's long term returns by seven per cent. Speaking at an MLC ...

ATO sends warning to super fund trustees

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
... value, so that might be the purchase price or it might be its most recent valuation might be quite old," he said. The ATO is urging trustees of superannuation funds and auditors of self managed super funds (SMSFs) to seek independent financial advice ...

Raise the pension, says seniors

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... healthcare and utilities continue to climb, segments of the older population are really struggling." The consumer body is urging the government to increase the single age pension to two-thirds of the couple rate. The pension currently sits at 57 per ...

Australia trailing towards the future

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2007
... Doherty said he wanted to see any future government up the compulsory contribution rate for super to 12 per cent, while urging the industry to be much more transparent, giving far better advice, something that Australians were willing to pay for, he ...

Three times the tax without a TFN

... tax file number (TFN) to their employers. Superpartners, the largest administration services provider in the country, is urging people to provide their TFN to their employers before 30 June, when the Simpler Super reforms take effect. "Providing a TFN ...