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Westscheme raises admin fees

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... superannuation funds AustralianSuper, which raised its admin fees at the start of this year. All of the AustralianSuper members' accounts are now being charged $1.50 per week for administration fees - up from $1.00 a week from last year.

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... the US dollar. Ergo, 'Not Made in America' goods, services and assets will be more expensive. These countries external accounts - trade balances - would deteriorate as exporters struggle to maintain profitability as they compete with cheaper American ...

OAMPS moves to tiered fee model

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... has slashed its overall fees and implemented a new "tiered" structure that lowers fees as the balance of members' super accounts grow. OAMPS Super, which is part of the larger OAMPS group that has operations in Australia and in the UK, reduced the overall ...

Higher fees, more cover: AustralianSuper

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... 50 per cent and is broadening its insurance cover, all in a bid to improve member services. All of the fund's members' accounts are now being charged $1.50 per week for administration fees - up from $1.00 a week from last year. The changes kicked in ...

ATO targets early access and in-house rules

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... retirement." Indeed, the ATO has already suspended more than 200 SMSF from receiving rollovers and, separately, frozen bank accounts holding over $1.5 million in benefits which were suspected of being released early in the past six months. The ATO is ...

ASIC cracks down on Hafoka

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... alleges that the preserved superannuation benefits of 192 superannuants totalling $4,055,043 were deposited into the bank accounts of the KSF. These funds were rolled over from 56 complying superannuation funds. Kassongo then allegedly used the KSF to ...

Pearce backs TCF policy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... needs of the consumer groups and are issued accordingly. In addition, TCF ensures any financial advice consumers receive accounts for their individual circumstances. Pearce was unsure how a Australian version of the TCF would come into affect and which ...

Efficiency and social equity best way to fix super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... while RWA said the way contributions are physically collected is the main problem, reporting in another paper that it accounts for as much one-third of the administration fees charged even by industry funds, ISN said sales costs are the major problem. ...

Thank you RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... institutions some of which collapsed soon after. Enough said. Drop in business inventories. Yes this will affect the National Accounts and would certainly detract from fourth quarter GDP growth - some say by around 1 percentage point - which immediately ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... silver, copper and oil were higher overnight. Attention will be on the release of Australia's December quarter national accounts, which provide the key measure of economic growth. At 0820 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index ...