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ASIC planner deadline looms

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... to have AMP's "full support", and that AMP "supports easily accessible information on individual advisers so that Australians seeking advice can compare and select financial advisers." Speaking to Financial Standard, Association of Financial Advisers ...

Australia sings hallelujah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
Australians all let us rejoice... Nah, not because "wild card" Guy Sebastian made numero cinco at the weekend's Eurovision finals - well... if you put money that he'll make Top 10 then go ahead and show us those pearly whites. Let's rejoice for what ...

AustralianSuper hires Tria Investment founder

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Former managing partner and founder of Tria Investment Partners, Andrew Baker, has joined AustralianSuper as head of proposition and product. The hire is reported to bolster AustralianSuper's member offering with Barker "a global leader in the wealth ...

Australia's super pool now more than $2 trillion

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... funds with more than four members over the March quarter totaled $23.7 billion, up 4.4% on the same period in 2014. Australians also contributed a total of $101.6 billion to super funds for the year ending March 2015. APRA statistics suggest there was ...

TAL sees growth in profits and payouts

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... to $1 billion. "Our products and services have been well-received in the market and we are now insuring one in four Australians," said TAL Group chief executive Brett Clark. "We paid out a billion dollars in claim payments last year, with the majority ...

FSC backs Commission on choice of super funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... relations system to avoid conflicts of interest and to open the superannuation market to competition and choice. "If Australians are forced to save a portion of their salary for 40 to 50 years, they must be allowed to decide who will be the custodian ...

CFS to distribute Sanlam funds in Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... added. Commenting on the partnership, Sanlam Global Investments Solutions chief executive Cobus Kruger said that "Australians can now leverage a strategy that addresses market, liquidity and sequencing risks and relieve some of their fear around investing ...

Falling AUD offsets dividend growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... global dividend growth will look better than our US dollar forecasts might initially suggest," he added. "What's more, Australians investing globally benefit from both greater regional and sector diversification when compared to investing domestically. ...

Super concessions key to tax review

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... Garcia said that there is an "urgency to assess total government assistance for retirement incomes received by all Australians, including the very well-off who currently get the lion's share. "The timing of the tax review is right. It is in everyone's ...

New initiative to improve women's economic health

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... first step, but the reality is that the project will deliver much more. "This is something the FPA advocates for all Australians, men and women," Rantall said. The FPA will subsidise 20 members to participate in the regional workshops, where they will ...