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Aussie super funds leap into top 300

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2007
Recent spectacular growth has pushed eight Australian superannuation funds into the Global 300 list, according to a new Watson Wyatt survey. Local funds grew at 68 per cent per annum in local currency terms over a three-year period, while US funds grew ...

ALP wants industry funds on awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has attracted support from the financial services industry with their calls to cut foreign withholding tax, but their call to make industry funds the automatic default super choice for industrial awards is less likely ...

Statewide rolls out automatic insurance cover

South Australia-based super fund Statewide has come up with a simple but clever answer to the nation's underinsurance problems - give members a better insurance deal without the cumbersome paperwork and medical checks. The fund's chief executive Frances ...

NZ bourse doubles earnings ahead of KiwiSaver

The New Zealand Exchange has posted a 102 per cent increase in earnings in the first half of 2007 and expects a stronger boost later in the year once the KiwiSaver and other related tax changes kick in. The group has announced that half-year EBITDA ...

ABN AMRO Craigs selects Gatekeeper

New Zealand-based advisory group ABN AMRO Craigs has signed up to use Gatekeeper, a new software solution developed by InvestmentLink to cater for new legislation around the KiwiSaver scheme. "With less than five months between the Budget and KiwiSaver ...

Budget super changes not for low budgets

Anne-Marie Corboy, the chief executive of award-winning super fund HESTA, has urged the government to abolish the contributions tax and get rid of the $450 income per month threshold, arguing that the recent Budget changes are for the rich and have ...

Australia to become an investment exporter: Perpetual

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
The biggest challenge facing funds managers is finding places to invest the wall of money that is flowing into Australia's already $1 trillion funds management market, said Emilio Gonzales, chief investment officer for Perpetual Investments. Illustrating ...

Salary sacrifice now three times more powerful

Salary sacrifice will become an even more powerful saving tool for Gen-Xers under Costello's latest Budget, allowing those 35 and under the option of saving at least three times more than in previous years. According to MLC, under existing rules, those ...

SG at 9 per cent is enough: Watson Wyatt

A new study has dismissed calls that the current 9 per cent superannuation guarantee (SG) is not enough to fund retirement, saying the obsession around SG levels diverts the attention away from more realistic solutions to resolve the nation's purported ...

Use SG to pay HECS and let funds borrow: ICAA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2006
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA) has gotten on the front foot and already lodged its pre-budget submission with the Federal Government asking for some radical policy shifts that include allowing members to use their Superannuation ...