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New Topdocs tool speeds SMSF application

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... currently is. So as part of our new Instant SMSF online application, we have created a direct link with the Australian Business Register which automatically pre-populates the entire ABN application for advisers, free of charge, when they set up their ...

Paying super on parental leave could help gender gap: Mercer

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2015
A quarter of Australian businesses don't pay superannuation whilst employees are on parental leave, adding another hurdle to addressing the super gender gap according to Mercer. The global investment and retirement consultant released its 2015 Gender ...

FEATURE: Reshaping insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
In a highly competitive market, group insurers are looking beyond lowering prices to attract large fund clients. In May, APRA issued a letter to Australian life insurers outlining the regulator's concerns about the group risk sector. If group insurers ...

Aussie fintech partners with Alibaba

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
Australian fintech lender GetCapital is offering finance to support purchases on Alibaba.com from suppliers in any country under a new partnership announced recently. The collaboration is, for the first time, providing Australian importers and exporters ...

Magellan doubles profit, boosts FUM

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... 60% of the increase in FUM came from investment performance, and the rest came from flows into our retail Australian business and institutional business," Magellan chief executive and chief investment officer Hamish Douglass told Financial Standard. ...

Class appoints three board members

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... involved in a number of not-for-profits and is on the board of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and the Australian Business and Community Foundation. He is a chartered accountant. Bungard joined Class in 2009 as chief operating officer and has overseen ...

QSuper seeks new CEO, Vilgan departs

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... overseen growth in member accounts from about $13 billion to $90 billion. In 2013 she was awarded Telstra Australian Business Woman of the Year. "I believe now is the time to move on and allow a new CEO to take QSuper to the next stage," Vilgan said ...

Wilson to raise $550m for philanthropic LIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... not accessible to retail investors." FGG board and managers will act pro bono. The LIC will be chaired by Australian business leader and University of Sydney chancellor, Belinda Hutchinson AM. The board will also include Magellan Asset Management general ...

Better than the big boys

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... mouth disease" and you don't want to read no more, no more, no more. But I digress. It's May's big bounce in Australian business confidence and conditions, helped delivered by Smokin' Joe before his ailment recurred. Here are the highlights from the ...

Treasury examining ASX monopoly

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the Government is considering encouraging competition in equities clearing to break up the ASX's monopoly. Speaking at the 2015 Annual Stockbrokers Conference in Sydney, Frydenberg conceded there had already ...