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Legal funds merge into Legalsuper

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... Barrister community," said Miles. Legalsuper has also recently appointed Hugh Macken, the immediate past president of the Law Society of New South Wales, to its board, and Neville Hathaway to a new position of investment expert in an expansion of legalsuper's ...

ASIC reveals cap arising enhancements

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... ASIC. In practice, many entities just put the information on their website, though not necessarily as expeditiously as the law may require. "ASIC recognises that for many entities, disclosure on their website provides a more useful and direct way of ...

SMSFs beware the taxman

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... this year, and based on past experience of the tax office, many fledgling trustees will fail to comply with superannuation law. Vanguard wrote in its newsletter that new trustees, having to confront the most severe economic downturn in memory, will surely ...

China's SWF on hiring spree

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
... foreign exchange reserves and formed the foundation of its registered capital. The fund is wholly state-owned under the Company Law of the People's Republic of China and headquartered in Beijing.

Super is a good idea but needs fixing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
... is a good idea but the design of the system to implement it is regressive and flawed, argues Julian Disney, social justice law professor and long time researcher and campaigner on equity issues. Disney said the difficulty is that while Australia's superannuation ...

CHOICE wants commissions banned

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
Consumer body CHOICE launched a new campaign this month calling for a ban on commission-based remuneration and other conflicted remuneration to advisers. Titled 'Financial advice: is it in your interest?' campaign, the association is attacking what ...

UBS portfolio manager joins Integrity

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
Former UBS small caps portfolio manager Glen Bertram has taken on a new role at Integrity Investment Management. Bertram starts work today as portfolio manager responsible for small companies. He will assume overall responsibility for small companies ...

Furlan to lead Super Complaints Tribunal

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... chair of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal. Senator Nick Sherry, the former minister for superannuation and corporate law, announced Jocelyn Furlan as the full-time chair of the tribunal for a five-year period. The tribunal, established by the Superannuation ...

Superannuation wins in Cabinet reshuffle

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... major ministerial reshuffle that saw Chris Bowen promoted to Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law and Minister for Human Services. Indicating that a major reshuffle was already on the cards and that the resignation of the ...

Super at the edge of abyss: ASFA

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... things to come for tighter super rules, a separate statement by Senator Nick Sherry, minister for superannuation and corporate law last month said that these changes will impact less than two per cent of fund members. Senator Sherry also said that the ...