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APRA changes to Super data collection unrealistic: IQ Group

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
APRA has proposed to increase its information held about investments for each fund, raising the data items requiring reports from 900 to approximately 4,000 data elements. Funds will need to incorporate new and more sophisticated data management capabilities ...

Perpetual CFO resigns

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
Perpetual Limited chief financial officer Roger Burrows has resigned, after accepting the same role at transport infrastructure group Asciano limited. After announcing Burrow's departure to the market yesterday, Perpetual said it had commenced an executive ...

Triple bypass needed to resurrect NAB's UK business

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
It could take years before NAB's 'worthless' UK banking business is restored to anything approaching a reasonable sale price. That is according to Elio D'Amato, chief executive of stock market solutions provider Lincoln Indicators. The underperformance ...

AustSafe Super to merge with retirement fund

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
The rural and regional industry super fund, AustSafe Super, has outlined plans to merge with the Canegrowers Retirement Fund (CRF) early next year. Upon completion of the merger, which is scheduled for 1 March 2013, AustSafe Super will retain its name ...

Mercer partners with superMate in SMSF market

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
Mercer has formed an alliance with Supercorp's cloud platform superMate to offer its clients a more efficient service to order actuarial certificates. The self managed super fund (SMSF) administration provider 'superMate' is designed to allow accountants ...

Uncertainty goes uncertainty comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
"The uncertainty is the worst"... I saw this story on theage.com.au website that quoted a certain Jessica Levitt - a resident of one of the Sandy-affected cities in the States - conveying her feelings in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy - reportedly ...

Aligned or independent: Advisers must be relevant

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
Whether advisers choose to stand-alone or stand-aligned, they're both confronted with developing an advice model that resonates with the disparate needs of clients. That was the overarching sentiment a group of industry practitioners shared with delegates ...

Paper bank statements ignored by UK consumers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
Australia is not the only developed nation that believes it has a financial literacy and awareness problem as Barclays Bank in the UK has just released the results of a study that found Britain may have an even worse problem. The study found 36% of ...

SelectingSuper 2012 awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
The 2012 SelectingSuper awards are being held in Melbourne's MCG members Dining Room on Thursday 8 November, with 16 awards on offer. They range from the Workplace, Personal and Retirement Products of the Year in multiple categories, to Self Managed ...

Ugly jobs decline rattles financial services

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
Australia has experienced the world's largest drop off in financial service jobs with a 34% drop in the third quarter of 2012 compared to the same time last year, according to the quarterly Jobs Barometer from eFinancialCareers. While the decline is ...