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Super heavyweights join forces

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... being considered may require the recording of every person's superannuation account balance (approximately 30 million accounts in total)," said the ASFA proposal. Instead the joint association proposals said their alternative would cut down complexity ...

HFA's Lighthouse wins $500m mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... increase HFA's assets under management, currently at $5.3 billion. The mandate will be placed into Lighthouse's managed accounts program and related funds. Currently Lighthouse offers a number of different hedge fund investment strategies through around ...

Govt to refund super tax for 3.5 million

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... as the 15 per cent rate is below his or her income tax rate. The move is expected to add some $1.75 billion to super accounts. The changes were prompted by recommendation of the Australia's Future Tax System (AFTS) Report that said superannuation tax ...

CommInsure hires AMP manager to strengthen retail advice

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... Kennedy will over see CommInsure's state- based sales teams, risk sales academy, business growth services and national accounts teams. With over 20 years experience in the industry, Kennedy has held senior positions at NAB/MLC, ING Financial Planning/RetireInvest ...

Asgard upgrades eWrap

... significant enhancements to template (model portfolio) functionality and online corporate actions for eWRAP super and pension accounts. Head of Asgard, Craig Lawrenson, said they worked closely with advisers to ensure the changes would result in a simpler ...

AMP targets lost super to attract members

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... about fees and loss of insurance that can occur when consolidating. "Australians on average have three superannuation accounts and it's estimated that this results in a loss of $1.1 billion a year in extra fees, lost payments and missed earnings," said ...

All good but for the dollar A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
The global community was not in the least perturbed by the release of Australia's National Accounts that showed real GDP fell by 1.2 per cent in the March quarter. Not even the fact that the economic slump in the first three months of 2011 was bigger ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... economic growth for the quarter, the biggest single-quarter hit to growth from trade in the 52-year history of national accounts data. Gross domestic product (GDP) figures are released on Wednesday. GFT Forex director of currency research, Kathy Lien ...

New software simplifies front office broking

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... settlement system, giving advisers a true picture of client holdings and positions while integrating into cash management accounts. They could then see client profiles including portfolio, risk profile, years to retirement and investment preferences ...

GDP down no reason to frown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... All eyes would be glued to monitors everywhere when the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report on the National Accounts at 1130 tomorrow. Consensus expectations centre around a 0.3 per cent dip in real GDP in the first three months of this year ...