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Government to update More Super calculator

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... will add an additional $127,000 into their superannuation by the time they retire at 67." They also took the opportunity to fire a shot at the opposition, saying, "The only thing Tony Abbott and the Liberal Party are interested in is cutting superannuation ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
... sentiment remains positive, dealers are keeping an eye on the stand-off on the Korean peninsula as the North, expected to fire a missile within the next few days, ratchets up its bellicose rhetoric. Tokyo rose 1.96 per cent, or 261.03 points, to 13,549.16 ...

Admin costs rise four-fold off-platform: research

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
Advisers who choose to go off-platform when handling client investments could be hit with higher admin costs, in one case four times more compared with staying on-platform, research found. The report undertaken by Praxis Partners and commissioned by ...

Gary Clifford awarded Trustee of the Year at CMSF

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
Gary Clifford, a board member of the Western Australia Fire and Emergency Services Super was awarded Trustee of the Year at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) that kicked off yesterday in Brisbane. Clifford has been a member of the ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... equanimity of world markets last night, we were going to be in the green when we started. and Myer has added a bit of fuel to the fire." Myer shares climbed 14 cents to $3.04. In the resources sector, global miner BHP Billiton fell 46 cents to $35.45 ...

PineBridge pitches quant solution to super funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... factors that are relevant to that group. Traditional quantitative models have been popular since the 1980s but they came under fire following the global financial crisis in which a liquidity crunch led to dramatic underperformance. However, PineBridge ...

Fed sorted easy, now for the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... feel the effects. Among those he listed: furloughed FBI agents, reductions in spending for communities to pay police and fire personnel and teachers, and decreased ability to respond to threats around the world. " He said the consequences would be felt ...

Co-operation key to avoiding pain from ASIC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
Financial services firms who come under fire from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) are better off working with the regulator than prepare for a legal battle, according to a law firm specialising in the area. A seemingly endless ...

Serpentine fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
... Mr. Lo predicted some years back that in 'The Year of the Rat', "the spring and summer months still shows strong wood and fire influences bringing upward surge in the stock and property market" and that it is "a year of cooling down with more stability ...

Platform asset-based fees under fire

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
The retail platform market is on the cusp of a revolution which will see standard asset-based pricing replaced with a fee-based structure, said Chris Wrightson, managing director of Centurian Market Makers. The business broking expert says that, in ...