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Korea scopes out Aussie asset management market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
The Korean Financial Investment Association (KOFIA) is reviewing the state of Australia's asset management market and assessing the potential for future business ahead of the Asia Region Funds Passport scheme commencing at the end of 2017. As a partner ...

Advisers urged to prepare clients for super shift

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
... Michael Doughty said super funds which don't have financial and tax advisers working in conjunction with them to be compliant-ready during this "urgent" pre-commencement period will face a difficult environment. Doughty told a recent Perpetual super ...

Two-year road to Brexit begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
... the receipt of the letter and stating that, "We regret that the United Kingdom will leave the European Union, but we are ready for the process that we now will have to follow. For the European Union, the first step will now be the adoption of guidelines ...

'Retire ready' is more than a large super balance

EMMA RAPAPORT, STEPHEN FAY  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
Satisfaction in retirement is a function of more than financial security, with other factors equal or more powerful in driving overall satisfaction, according to presenters at this years' Conference of Major Super Funds. At a session on retirement and ...

FICAP fundraiser ready to rock

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
The countdown is on to FICAP's "Who wants to be a RockStar" night this Thursday at The Ivy Ballroom. FICAP, the Financial Industry Community Aid Program, has announced its list of auction items up for grabs alongside the annual charity concert. A track ...

ATO payroll system tracking unpaid super

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... non-compliance risk and increases the likelihood payments are missed, Cbus said. From 1 July 2017, the ATO will be 'systems ready' for employers with 20 or more employees and required to report from 1 July 2018. Employers with 19 employees or less are ...

Liftoff imminent at Spaceship

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... registering as a superannuation product-provider on January 9, Spaceship had built a customer base of thousands and was ready to invest where the world is heading. Bursting onto the start-up funding scene in July last year, Spaceship pitched a different ...

Super deadline driving adviser self-education

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... looming super reforms are driving significant increases in traffic to MLC's online technical resources as financial advisers ready themselves for 1 July. Since the legislative changes were announced in May 2016, MLC has recorded a 104% increase in visits ...

Low-flation at the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... financial conditions become inconsistent with further progress towards a sustained adjustment in the path of inflation, we stand ready to increase our asset purchase programme in terms of size and/or duration." The March 2017 ECB staff macroeconomic ...

Private equity sector resilient

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
... billion in 2015. This decline does not reflect a worsening exit environment, but was driven by a leaner pipeline of deals ready for exit as the industry has largely worked through the backlog of assets invested prior to the global financial crisis, the ...