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APRA to review exec pay

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
Australian financial services firms saved by the government deposit guarantee are about to discover the political price they will be expected to pay with APRA announcing details of its executive remuneration monitoring program. The irony however is ...

Right to choice must balance costs of choosing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
Choice is important but not if it imposes too many administration costs or forces people who don't want to choose to make un-informed choices. "While the Government is committed to the rights of members to choose their own super fund, we are also committed ...

Calls to cut super contribs fails to get traction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
Simplistically rejecting the idea of temporarily cutting super contributions misses the big opportunity - putting superannuation into the economic frontline and making it part of our monetary policy heavy artillery. A group of economists lead by Nick ...

Govt targets judge's super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
The Government might have rejected a call to let employers swap employer contributions for extra take-home wages as a short term fiscal stimulus, but it hasn't stopped them threatening to slash non-contributory super paid to new judges. The Australian ...

What a member wants

... Superannuation Governance forum. Michelle Baltazar, Financial Standard's editor, is chairing Day One of the two-day event and Alex Dunnin, director of research and editorial, is presenting on Day Two. We are giving away five complimentary conference ...

Govt targets judge's super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
The Government might have rejected a call to let employers swap employer contributions for extra take-home wages as a short term fiscal stimulus, but it hasn't stopped them threatening to slash non-contributory super paid to new judges. The Australian ...

Super funds reject calls to cut super contrib

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
A group of economists lead by Nick Gruen, principal of the Lateral Economics consultancy, have written to the Prime Minister proposing that employer super contributions be cut from 9 to 6 per cent with the money transferring to employees as take-home ...

Morrison Carr triples adviser base

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
Sydney based dealer group Morrison Carr has tripled its number of advisers in the past 12 months despite the downward slide of the local economy. Morrison Carr, which has around $1.5 billion in funds under advice, tripled its number of advisers from ...

Innovators, imitators and idiots

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
Yale Endowment wannabes trying to emulate their heroes with high exposures to timber products pushed up prices to 30 times pre-tax cash flow, setting them up for big falls in 2009. The frenzy, reported by Barron's, a newsletter published by the Wall ...

Constitution finds Clearway to Aus

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
Constitution Capital Partners, a US private equity firm, has partnered with Clearway Capital Solutions in Australia. Constitution Capital Partners (CCP) focuses on North American middle market buyout funds and direct investments. In North America, the ...