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Business still unhappy with SG increase

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI). The employer associations are opposed to the SG increase because they believe the one-third increase in employer superannuation payments from 9 to 12 per cent will cost about $23 billion per year, money that many ...

Business still unhappy with SG increase

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI). The employer associations are opposed to the SG increase because they believe the one-third increase in employer superannuation payments from 9 to 12 per cent will cost about $23 billion per year, money that many ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
... rein in soaring property prices started to bite. Gross domestic product in China maintained double-digit growth for the third quarter in a row, expanding 10.3 per cent in the three months to June, but down from the blistering 11.9 per cent in January-March. ...

Planners rank high on client scorecard

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... relationship are "better planned and happier with their investments, than those who don't". "Consumers with advisers rank them the third most trusted professional, after medical specialists and dentists. They look on their adviser as a coach helping ...

Platforms up 30pc to $391bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
The 90 percentage point turnaround in equity returns in the year to end March has propelled a 30 per cent bounceback in the size of the platform market. According to Rainmaker's recently released Advantage Report, platform FUA climbed back to $392 billion ...

US pension plan deficits rise in June

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
... 2009, according to a new report. Mercer's survey found the pension plan deficit had widened by $130 billion during June, the third largest increase in the past decade. Pension funding status of these companies has fallen to 73 per cent compared to 78 ...

Looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
... very companies they were standing in judgment upon." Still in Europe, Germany's ZEW investor confidence index fell for a third straight month to a 15-month low of 21.2 in July from 28.7 in the previous month. You want more -- something with more oomph ...

LGS sells FuturePlus share to EISS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
Local Government Super (LGS) is selling its half stake in admin and investment provider FuturePlus to its other half-owner Energy Industries Superannuation Scheme (EISS) - lifting the uncertainty that hung over the co-owned business caught in the political ...

Trustee outsourcing deals in regulator spotlight

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... members. "For not-for-profit funds, this type of outsourcing is a function of minimising member expense. In some cases, third parties can provide services at a cost less than that were the trustees to perform the function themselves.... but for some ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... cent, at 20,467.43. The rise followed news that mainland Chinese banks in first-tier cities had resumed lending to buyers of third homes, after data showed the market was starting to cool, traders said. SHANGHAI - The market was led by property companies. ...