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SMSF numbers show huge jump

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2007
... billion mark. The growth spurt marks a 21 per cent increase over the previous year and follows figures from Trowbridge Deloitte predicting the sector could grow to a third of the total super industry in Australia by 2021, with $1.46 trillion in assets. ...

Private equity, hedge funds at risk

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
... gains tax on property sales, he felt private equity firms should pay income tax on their stock-in-trade. Macquarie Bank, Deloitte and KPMG were contacted to respond to Grantham's comments, but had yet to respond at time of publication.

Biometrics to curb ID theft

... is on the top of the priority list of many banks and finance institutions. According to a separate study conducted by Deloitte last year, more than three-quarters of the world's leading 150 finance groups suffered a serious security breach, some of which ...

Corp funds still unfazed by choice: Deloitte

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... choice even though most confess they will soon need to ramp up their services if they are to survive, according to a Deloitte report. Wayne Walker, Deloitte superannuation partner and author of the study, said they are being sparked into action because ...

Economic round up: offshore outsourcing outsourced

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2007
... the question, how long it will take before some enterprising business cuts out the middleman? According to consultancy Deloitte who compile the Global Financial Services Offshoring Report each year, "India remains offshoring's hub but is likely to lose ...

SEQUAL to boost reach through education

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2007
... mortgage brokers and financial planners, compared to 38 per cent in 2005 and 17 per cent in 2004, according to the SEQUAL/Deloitte Trowbridge Report. Kieren Dell, executive director of SEQUAL, said, "We see the appointment of Kevin Conlon as head of ...

Balanced funds tip towards alternatives

A new Deloitte survey on what asset classes a balanced fund typically invests in found falling demand for fixed interest and a marked shift towards alternative assets. The survey looked at asset allocations for balanced funds in 2002 and how they compare ...

Aussie businesses still risky: Deloitte

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2007
... according to a spot poll of 50 top 100 Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and government organisations conducted by Deloitte last week. Of the chief risk officers and senior risk managers polled 58 per cent said their organisations had insufficient ...

Members covered for fraud but not bad investments

... to pay benefits and where a grant is in the public interest," said Tony Brain, director of the fund's acting trustee Deloitte Management. However, this meant that the members could not recoup approximately $9 million of the money that 'disappeared' because ...

Reverse mortgages jump 80 per cent to $1.5 billion

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
Australia's emerging reverse mortgage market is growing at 80 per cent a year, the consulting actuary Deloitte Trowbridge reported yesterday. The country's 16 reverse mortgage lenders had $1.5 billion of loans on their books at December 31, up from ...