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Better FHSAs needed for buyers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... Superannuation industry bodies AIST, ISN and IFF have banded together to propose measures tailoring First Home Saver Accounts to better aid struggling first home buyers. Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of AIST, said the scheme should be structured in ...

Good billing helps SMSF admin

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
... at the SPAA conference last week, Bloore said some accounting practices fear they could lose control of their clients' accounts if they outsourced part of their business. But by avoiding outsourcing, they miss out on the added benefits provided by an ...

ASIC zones in on accountants pushing SMSFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... accountant exemption law. In other news, DuPre said the Financial Services Working Group would roll out the First Home Saver Accounts by July this year and would develop a four-page superannuation product disclosure statement (PDS) by the end of 2009. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... release their Australian Performance of Services Index for January and the Australian Bureau of Statistics posts national accounts data for December. RBA assistant governor of financial markets, Dr Guy Debelle, speaks on Recent Developments in the Australian ...

Check the fine print: GESB

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
... maximise their retirement savings. Michele Dolin, Government Employees Super Fund (GESB) chief executive, said consolidating accounts, co-contributing towards super and paying commissions all impact a member's final superannuation balance. "Look at whether ...

Web service climbs adviser wishlist

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
... include better online functionality. This upgrade included online video tutorials, automatic registration for member accounts online and an online tax file number submission application. ING Australia, with more than $45 billion in assets under management ...

Dreman hands wrap to Charles River

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... Dreman, the project completes phase one of a larger company initiative to incorporate the full spectrum of investment accounts, including wrap accounts onto the Charles River IMS platform. "Technology is an enabler of our business and we wanted to have ...

AWU campaigns for opt-in super

... intervention to turn the tax cuts into retirement savings and provide extra government incentives to push up our superannuation accounts is good social policy," he added. Howes said that ordinary Australians have had to bear the Reserve Bank's decision ...

Zurich ramps up sales

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
... working as a BDM. Drennan confirms that Zurich Investments is on the lookout for personnel to expand the firm's BDM and key accounts areas.

Fresh directions for super: ASFA

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2008
... on superannuation advice, governance around self-managed super funds (SMSFs), and the development of first home saver accounts, among others. "We've been working with ASIC on affordable, adequate and available advice [for quite some time]& segmentation ...