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Super tax breaks review could save $6.6bn: Grattan

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
Better targeting of superannuation contributions tax breaks could save the budget $3.9 billion a year and increasing taxes on superannuation earnings of retirees could raise another $2.7 billion, Grattan Institute research shows. "The current system ...

Good tidings sway RBA to stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
Rate cut/No rate cut. Well, 'twas a coin flip anyway - the rationales for a cut was equally rational as those for a no cut - so no blame all around. In the end, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decided to stay the course - keeping the official cash ...

Finsia partners with Hong Kong institute

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
A growing number of Australasian financial services professionals in Hong Kong have helped establish a partnership between two industry development groups. The Financial Services Institute of Australia (Finsia) and the Hong Kong Securities and Investment ...

The power of saying no to difficult advice clients

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
Sometimes you need to refuse certain clients to grow your business. This was the message given by Multiforte director and 2014 Association of Financial Advisers Female Excellence in Advice award winner Kate McCallum. Speaking at the Association of Financial ...

Governance Institute pulls support for super bill

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
The Governance Institute has pulled its initial support for the government's bill on superannuation fund boards and is now calling for it to be scrapped. "The process has become overly politicised to the detriment of genuine governance outcomes," a ...

Frontier Advisors appoints former Mercer principal

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
Frontier Advisors has attracted a former Mercer principal as a senior consultant amid plans to increase the independent firm's retirement solutions advice. Joining Frontier Advisors and leading its Retirement Solutions Group from 19 October will be ...

Philanthropists award $1.5m to medical researchers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
The Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundations have distributed almost $1.5 million to seven biomedical researchers. The foundations' trustee, Perpetual, confirmed that $1 million of the philanthropic funds will go towards research that is looking to reduce ...

ASIC funding model needs "meat on the bones"

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
The Treasury's proposal of a new model to fund ASIC lacks detail and needs "more meat on the bones," the Governance Institute said. The organisation said that the government's consultation paper 'Proposed Industry Funding Model for the Australian Securities ...

Super executive leaves for Mozambique

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
Club Plus Super chief operating officer Phil Grindley is leaving the industry fund after seven years to join a children's centre in Mozambique. Grindley announced the move on Monday and said he would be moving with his wife and two children to serve ...

Murray slams "silly suggestions"

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
David Murray, chair of the Financial System Inquiry, has stirred the debate around super board independence, saying it has deteriorated into a "set of silly suggestions." In his final FSI report, Murray recommended that super funds appoint a majority ...