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Cbus launches employer contribution app

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
Cbus and Link Group have developed a super contribution app for employers. Cbus described the Cbus Employer Mobile App as "a first of its kind," highlighting features including adding new employees, generating receipts and managing account administration. ...

Super 2.0 must deliver retirement certainty: FSC

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016
... Budget cycle and link it to the five-yearly intergenerational report." Addressing the breakfast, shadow minister for small business and financial services Katy Gallagher reaffirmed Labor's driving ideology that the tax treatment of super needs to encourage ...

Adviser Ratings secures referral partnership

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
Adviser Ratings has partnered with Small Business First for an exclusive referral scheme designed to connect Australian small businesses with professional financial advisers. The partnership will leverage Small Business First's reach of 500,000 businesses ...

Labor blindsides super legislation

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... care for a family member. They will also help people with irregular income patterns, such as farmers, as well as small business people and their employees by allowing them to claim a tax deduction for personal super contributions."

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... 10) and recreation & personal services (down 10) Retail (up 12) and transport (up 9) improved in October. US NFIB small business optimism Small businesses in America seemed unfazed by the uncertainty of the US presidential elections and the rising prospect ...

Global shakeup for Xero team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
... financial services industry having previously served as executive vice president and general manager of Capital One Small Business, banking division. Gohman will also support Xero's hubs in San Francisco, New York, Austin and Seattle. The restructure ...

Westpac appoints group customer advocate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2016
... appointed to the position which is intended to provide a means of independent review for the bank's retail and small business customers outside of standard internal review processes. Westpac chief executive Brian Hartzer said the appointment enhances ...

Succession planning placed on the backburner

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
Financial planning and accounting businesses are all too regularly ignoring the need for quality exit and succession plans, according to chief executive of Connect Financial Service Brokers, Paul Tynan. Tynan has observed a growing number of practitioners ...

AFA award shines spotlight on women in financial advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... Planning Partners director and financial adviser Amanda Cassar, a well-known advocate for women who run their own small business; and Lea Schodel, an award-winning financial adviser at MHP Private Wealth who is fast making a name for herself under her ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
... leading the way" but NAB warned about the weakness in retail and wholesale conditions "should they continue". US NFIB small business optimism The National Federation of Independent Businesses' (NFIB) small business optimism index eased to 94.4 in August ...