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What-if scenarios bring Budget blues

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
New restrictions to existing superannuation and tax concessions could help the Government slash the predicted budget deficit in the next few years but this could come at a higher cost to superannuants and taxpayers in the long term, industry experts ...

Super queries drop despite GFC

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
... frantically ringing super fund call centres to ask about their investments, guess again - the number of calls fielded by Pillar Administration has fallen since the start of the GFC, said Peter Beck, the firm's chief executive. Beck, a speaker at yesterday's ...

UK govt to introduce personal accounts scheme

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... relevant retirement saving system," the report said. Mya Myat Moe said Personal Accounts may pave the way for a whole new pillar of pensions savings but it was up to providers to seize opportunities to present employers and employees alike with an overall ...

PLUM's new chief to push comms

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Plum Financial Services' new managing director Paul Carter flags plans to boost its communication campaign and delay some investment projects scheduled for next year to 2010 to steer Plum through a difficult 2009. Carter, who took over the reigns from ...

Sale won't affect clients: Pillar

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
The NSW government's proposal to sell the superannuation administration provider, Pillar will not affect its operations or its client accounts, accordng to a spokesperson for the firm. Mark Luciano, Pillar general manager of marketing and business development ...

First State Super joins UN PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... equities and more than 21 per cent or $3.3 billion in cash. JANA Investment Advisers is the super fund's asset consultant and Pillar Administration represents its administrator.

Saved by the Fed

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
Troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be reborn in a four-pillar strategy put forward by the US government - a move that brought fast relief to the credit markets. After more than a month of deliberations, the Treasury, the Federal ...

PSS deploys Acurity

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... Superannuation Scheme (PSS) has officially engaged Acurity, a new administration system implemented by Financial Synergy and Pillar Adminsitration. According to Financial Synergy, PSS is one of Australia's oldest defined benefit and pension funds and ...

Market Jitters Redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
Market Movers Overnight 15 July "Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water." This was the movie JAWS 2's tagline back in 1978 and it aptly applies to the global financial markets current predicament. It may not have been a complete ...

St George and Westpac to merge

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... Commonwealth Bank," said Rainmaker's associate director Andrew Keevers. While the proposed merger does not impact Australia's four pillar policy, where the major four banks are not allowed to merge with each other, the 20 and 25 per cent respectively ...