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Plans to close large UK defined benefit angers members

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
UK financial services group Axa has announced plans to close its final salary pension to existing members. The company told staff it planned to move 2,300 employees currently in the scheme to a defined contribution pension, where payments are not guaranteed ...

Govt starts super reforms campaign

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... should be negotiated separately in employment contracts, starting with the provision that employees are hired on a total salary package and it's up to each employee to decide how they wish it spent and allocated into superannuation. Superannuation contributions ...

Government announces key super reforms

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... the reform will ensure that people are taxed on excess contributions in the same way as if the had received that money as salary or wages and had chosen to make a non-concessional contribution," Shorten said. The minister also announced that from July ...

CSC launches retirement income pension

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... beneficiary options. Members opting for the transition to retirement scheme get the benefit of an option to supplement their salary with income from their super to scale back their working hours and to pay less tax by salary sacrificing into super.

Financial Wisdom launches discounted recruitment service

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... for a practice would be to use a recruitment consultant where charges are generally based on a percentage of appointee's salary," he said. Financial Wisdom has also produced a range of tools, which Ballantyne said would free up planners to look after ...

MLC launches retirement stress test tool

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
... easily explain the complexities of retirement risk to their clients." Advisers input details into the simulator such as salary, super balance, retirement goals and current contributions and the simulator then allows advisers to assume up to two market ...

Super for all shapes and sizes: QSuper

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... the default option: "We know the age of our members, the environment they are living in, their account balance and their salary, but we often don't look at it, we ignore it," Vilgan said. "Funds are moving here and in the US towards target strategies ...

Former Astarra director permanently banned from fin services

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... the Astarra Strategic Fund (ASF) Product Disclosure Statement and in receiving more than $388,041 in payments outside his salary as a reward for his involvement in the investment of ASF assets in certain funds. Liu was also found responsible for dishonest ...

AFA outlines stance on conflicted remuneration

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... advisers in cases where a salaried adviser coming into the business might take a stake in the business and still have a salary. "We believe that a final guidance is important for the industry but we have a number of concerns about it, some of which we ...

How advisers can double their business value

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... financial planning businesses do not have real earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) in the traditional sense. "Most make a salary that derives a living for owners. In the very best practices we have observed that where owners have implemented scalable ...