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Super funds win merger tax relief

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
Merging superannuation funds have been granted a three-month tax relief extension by Financial Services and Superannuation Minister Bill Shorten. Minister Shorten today said that the Government would extend the temporary tax loss relief for consolidating ...

Advisers sacked, fees halved in "doom" scenario

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
A report stating a quarter of financial advisers would be wiped from the industry and fee revenue halved by 2024 is alarmist, the Association of Financial Advisers said today. The report by research house Rice Warner Actuaries stated the figures in ...

ETF provider soothes market over risk issues

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
Exchange traded fund provider iShares has moved to reassure the market that Australian ETFs are not risky in the wake of warnings from global authorities about transparency and leverage issues. The Financial Stability Board, an international watch-dog ...

High level super talks on now

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
Top superannuation fund chiefs are today locked in high-level talks with Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten on a range of issues including raising the superannuation guarantee. Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation ...

Fund managers follow the herd

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Global equities fund managers are often choosing the same stocks for their top 10 holdings, research house Lonsec has found in its latest global equity fund sector review. The review rated 39 funds of which 26 were qualitatively managed by active stock ...

Computershare gobbles up BNY Mellon shareowner services

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Investor services firm Computershare will buy BNY Mellon's shareowner services business for US$550 million in the biggest ever purchase for the firm, it told the Australian Stock Exchange today. Two banks have provided bridging finance for the purchase ...

SMSF trustees hit pension payment woe

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Self-managed super fund trustees risk being hit by tax and forced liquidations in the pensions phase if they don't plan ahead, financial services firm HLB Mann Judd has warned. Michael Hutton, head of wealth management at the firm, said self-managed ...

Super funds praise reforms

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
The superannuation funds industry responded to the Government's financial reforms today with praise for the expansion of scaled advice. The Future of Financial Advice reforms have expanded the limited form of financial advice to a range of providers ...

UBS lost fund finds a manager

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
UBS Global Asset Management has found a new portfolio manager for the Small Companies Fund, left in limbo after two members of the three-man management team left earlier this month. Victor Gomes, most recently a portfolio manager at Selector Funds Management ...

Opposition attacks opt-in concession

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
Minister for Financial Services Bill Shorten has eased reforms on financial planners by extending the opt-in period but the Opposition has attacked, saying it would still cost an average firm $50,000. Adviser groups have lobbied hard against the opt-in ...