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SelectingSuper award nominees announced

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
Rainmaker has released the names of the 30 super fund groups whose products have been shortlisted for the Rainmaker SelectingSuper awards being held in Melbourne on 21 November. The 30 superannuation groups represent 60 separate superannuation products ...

ISA and FSC at odds over super tax changes

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
... unexpected and reflecting the difficulty of implementing the measure, will sit uncomfortably with the 3.6 million Australians who are facing higher tax on their super contributions than on their take home pay. "There is an imperative upon all Parliamentarians ...

WA Local Government Super rebrands, gets MySuper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... itself on investing and supporting locally run businesses, a point of differentiation likely to appeal to Western Australians.

Advisers battle to reconnect with disengaged clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
Financial planners are fishing for new clients among Australians who have never sought advice before, but technology could help them reconnect with disengaged clients already in their practices. "There are very few practices that don't have a number ...

EWM Group launches new philanthropy division

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013
... high net worth clients. The group said it is preparing for "an historic transfer" of wealth to the next generation of Australians amounting to more than $70 billion. "We are on the cusp of a tsunami of wealth with a record amount of family assets moving ...

Savings trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... at 2.5% -- that's boosting share and property prices. Surely, the wealth effect spawned from these should encourage Australians to spend, and this spending should bolster economic growth. But alas! We're not. Instead we're saving more - our household ...

Future Fund hands confidential documents to AustralianSuper

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
The Future Fund has provided AustralianSuper with confidential documents containing details of the acquisition of a stake in Perth Airport. "The Future Fund has voluntarily provided a small number of confidential documents to assist in bringing the ...

Govt confirms SG delay, kills LICS

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... over $1 trillion. Increasing superannuation contribution rates are critical in closing this gap and ensuring more Australians have adequate retirement savings," FSC chief executive John Brogden said. "Today's announcement removes any doubt that the Government ...

AustralianSuper takes $1bn from IFM, gives it to in-house team

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
AustralianSuper has taken $1bn off IFM Investors and has given the mandate to its in-house team to test its efficiency. "We will see how they go," AustralianSuper chief investment officer Mark Delaney told Financial Standard. "We want to see how they ...

Spend, spend, spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... markets around the world -- is cheering the resolution of the US government shutdown and the debt ceiling. Not that Australians thought the result would be otherwise - the index gained a bit over 2% between 2 and 18 October (we're one day ahead of America ...