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SMSF industry welcomes more flexible penalties

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
The government's re-introduction of measures that allow for more flexible penalties for trustees who breach rules has received general support from the self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) industry. Speaking at the 10th SPAA SMSF National Conference ...

AustralianSuper CEO justifies The New Daily

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk has categorically denied that The New Daily will be a politically partisan publication, saying if it took a political line it would "wither on the vine in five minutes." The launch of the industry super fund-owned ...

UBS grants advisers access to industry funds

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013
UBS Australia has upgraded the direct to member platform it provides to industry super funds to allow advisers to act directly on a member's behalf. Members will be able to approve or cease adviser access to their account at any time as well as authorise ...

Former Trio director provides enforceable undertaking

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
A former director of Trio Capital, Kurt Groeneveld has provided the prudential regulator with an enforceable undertaking excluding him from acting as a superannuation trustee for three and a half years. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority ...

Calendar says buy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
They did it again! Yes Virginia, Washington did what most Tom, Dick and Harriet expected it would do. It reached a compromise deal at the 11th hour. Wall Street's happy, especially those who stayed the course and saw through the political shenanigans ...

Unthinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
Shutdown: Day 14 and counting...3 days to go till the US debt hits the ceiling. But wait! There's news just out. Washington, it seems, is gonna kick the can a little farther. It won't be 22 November as reported last week, it'll now be 15 Feb 2014. Reuters ...

US shutdown slowing pension payments

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2013
The continuing US shutdown is beginning to slow pension payments, with fears growing some payments could stop. The US secretary for the Veterans Administration Benefits and Services, Eric Shinseki, appeared end last week before the Congress committee ...

Washington watching Wall Street watch Washington

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2013

Chambers enters into administration, loses AFSL

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
Chambers Investment Planners entered into voluntary administration and had its Australian financial services licence (AFSL) cancelled by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). ASIC also cancelled the Australian credit licence of ...

Everybody loves a dove

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013