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CareSuper scoops SelectingSuper awards

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012
CareSuper has won both Super Fund of The Year and Best Long Term Performance at this years SelectingSuper awards, held in the MCG members Dining Room in Melbourne this morning. Fund of the Year is awarded to the fund or platform with the best overall ...

RBA says its ok

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... the wrong horse to win this year's Melbourne Cup -- model said Dunaden to win, Green Moon did. At least we know four Australians were able to beat odds of more than 4 million to one at last night's A$100 million OZ Lotto jackpot. Wonder what model they ...

Westpac warns tough year ahead

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... performance allows us to return three quarters of our profit as dividends to shareholders, the vast majority of whom are Australians owning shares directly or through their superannuation funds," she said. Westpac's financial services arm, which includes ...

Relax legislation on deferred annuities: Challenger

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... that it was also not taken into account when the policies on superannuation products were drawn up. Benari said that Australians had done an "admirable job on the accumulation side," but regardless, more and more baby-boomers are entering the draw-down ...

AustralianSuper to invest $5bn in property

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
AustralianSuper has outlined plans to invest $5 billion in real estate over the next five years which is expected to take its $4 billion property portfolio to approximately $9 billion by 2016. The super fund advised that its decision to invest in real ...

Advisers failing to engage disillusioned consumers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... securing their retirement future, they are struggling against an environment fraught with problems to engage the 80% of Australians without an adviser. "One thing we do know is that people are saying their lives are transformed off the back of receiving ...

Paper bank statements ignored by UK consumers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... looking at bank statements less daunting, said Wass. A report by Online Banking Review earlier this year found that Australians' use of mobile banking technology has become one of the premier applications of mobile computing. But the banks aren't having ...

CGT relief passes House of Reps

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
Capital gains tax relief has been welcomed by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), after the Bill passed through the House of Representatives yesterday. The Bill extends the relief on capital loss rollovers to 1 July 2017 to coincide ...

Tackling direct insurance head on

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... ensure their value proposition is as clear as the direct insurers, because according to consumer research, 60% of Australians go online, or will go online look at insurance offerings. Additionally, Kirby warned advisers that "if you see a value proposition ...

Financial services outstrip mining: CommSec

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... surprise figures in a characteristically energetic presentation in Queensland, James acknowledged that risk-averse Australians still favour term-deposits over other products, but said investors could find solace in the headline statistics. "There's an ...