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ATO to gauge SMSF attitudes to regulation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
... firm and will canvass the views of the regular community, employers and the superannuation industry. The main aim of the project is to provide an independent assessment of community attitudes and behaviours with regards to superannuation, including perceived ...

AMP Cap, Cbus and Galileo join forces

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
... billion. Dale Phillips, head of opportunity funds at AMP Capital Investors, said, to the best of their knowledge, the project finance package is one of the largest facilities provided this year for a residential property. He said the apartment complex ...

Population explosion to reshape wealth and pension

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
Financial planners and super funds will be catering for a much bigger market than previously thought, after Treasurer Wayne Swan said the population could grow to 35 million by 2049, much higher than earlier estimates of around 28 million. Speaking ...

Westpoint auditors get just desserts

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
... mezzanine finance (a form of fund raising that covers the difference between available bank finance and the cost of the project). It created mezzanine companies for each of these projects and raised funds for the projects through the issue of mezzanine ...

Pension fund suffers million-dollar meltdown

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... anger of the public towards GSIS," said Elamparo. The pension fund believes Questronix has an obligation to make sure the project works efficiently and maintain the system. "Despite its clear obligation to GSIS to make sure the DB2 software should function ...

AMP gears up for changes in advice

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... technology improvements through the rollout of COIN software," said a spokesperson of the firm. Dunn said the drive of the project was to make it easier for its customers to make informed choices about AMP's offerings.

Singapore pushes for online economy

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
... in Singapore include the introduction of the biometric ATM by Citibank as far as 2006. However, Ovum pointed that the project did not gain traction because of the bank's problems with its payment processor. In Australia, banks have largely focused on ...

Fed's unfunded liabilities balloon to $80bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
Federal unfunded superannuation liabilities have jumped 75 per cent in less than a decade, putting pressure on the government's Future Fund strategy to contain the fiscal blow out. The figures, contained in the latest Mercer analysis from the Department ...

Legg Mason shuts down defensive trust

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... product is being closed. "Our priority is a smooth transition with clients through the closure and this is aided by the project teams being set up by platforms to deal with product closures generally," said Pesutto. Legg Mason will continue to accept ...

Sustainability grows in EMs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... China, India, South Korea, and Brazil, identifying best-practice examples to pre-empt ESG risks and enhance returns. The project included a survey of 514 equity managers from around the globe, of which 177 managers invest in emerging markets.