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Child Care Super cuts fees, boost insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
Retail fund Australian Child Care Super Fund is introducing a new tiered fee structure to lower costs for members, and upgraded its insurance cover last month. ACCSF introduced the tiered fee structure on 1 October - a move that will see members pay ...

Industry funds not undermining confidence: ISN

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2009
... guidelines. Klipin said the AFA also works with ASIC but argued that limited advice in its current form introduces a two-tier playing field with regular advisers being bound by "60 page advice processes" while super funds are exempt. Whiteley said however ...

Cooper the competition crusader is coming

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
Jeremy Cooper, head of the government's all powerful review into the structure of superannuation, has poured cold water on a national default fund but opened the door to a tiered model that would allow fund members to step up into more sophisticated ...

ASIC charts margin lending requirements

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... resource requirements to Australian financial service licensees (AFSL) that deal in margin lending products. At present, Tier 1 products, that are more complex, attract advanced training requirements than Tier 2 products. ASIC proposes that margin lending ...

Suncorp re-names wealth division

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... strength and focus on the life insurance market. "Suncorp Life aspires to be a leading life insurance specialist with first tier scale and distribution in Australia and to occupy the clear second position in New Zealand," he said. "Our business strength ...

Pres Obama proposes sweeping regulatory reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... conglomerates whose "combination of size, leverage, and interconnectedness could pose a threat to financial stability if it failed (Tier 1 FHC) [which] should be subject to robust consolidated supervision and regulation, regardless of whether the firm ...

UBS cuts business and jobs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... loss expenses and valuation adjustments" that totalled more than $4 billion. Despite the loss, the bank expects to have a tier 1 capital ratio of roughly 10 per cent in March this year. As a result of these losses, UBS is planning more than $4 billion ...

Barclays sells iShares

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... transaction will be retained by Barclays to enhance the firm's capital position, adding around 54 basis points to the Equity Tier 1 pro forma as at December last year. CVC Capital Partners will also grant Barclays a participation interest that will entitle ...

Coin makes marketing easy

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
Coin is turning financial planners into graphic artists and marketing gurus after the technology firm added a new module that lets financial planners develop a stylish tailored marketing campaign. The Campaign Management Module allows financial planners ...

OAMPS moves to tiered fee model

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
The $223 million OAMPS Super 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 ...