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Australia leads in global median wealth

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
The median wealth of Australians continues to be the highest in the world, a Credit Suisse Research Institute report released today reveals. Dubbed the annual Global Wealth Report, the research shows Asia Pacific overtaking Europe as the world's largest ...

Woe R'Us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
Australians all let's NOT rejoice. How can we when day in, day out - days in-between - we're reminded of the woeful state that the world is in and that... we'll be swimming with the fishes along with it? Woe R'Us. Look beyond the sea that girths our ...

Labor's $30bn secret super tax plan revealed

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
Shadow Assistant Treasurer Mathias Cormann is calling on Superannuation Minister Bill Shorten to come clean to Australians that they have to pay $30 billion in increased super taxes to assist the Labor government to pay for its $120 billion budget black ...

AustSuper adds hedge IEq option

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
AustralianSuper has added a new investment option, hedged international shares, taking their number of investment choices to 18, including their direct share low-cost platform. The expanded choice menu now offered by AustralianSuper makes their menu ...

SMSF contributions up 15%

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... recent data from the Australian Tax Office (ATO), which releases contributions figures annually, with a one year lag. Australians contributed $24 billion into self managed super funds in the 2010-11 financial year, according to the Financial Services ...

Omega bullish on sovereign investing

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... lowly indebted nations are currently doing well and that safe government bonds are doing even better. He noted that Australians have been underinvested in government bonds, because they have misunderstood what low yield means. "A lot of investors think ...

Mandates slugged by downturn

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
The economic downturn has taken a sizable toll on the size and volume of mandates in 2012, according to recently released Rainmaker research. Highlights from Rainmaker's Mandate Chaser research reveal that mandate appointments (441) in the year to 30 ...

Aust super system failing retirees

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... Australia. The study shows that compulsory superannuation, 20 years after introduction, has had a minimal impact on Australians' capacity to save for a self-funded retirement. CPA said it instead shows a tendency by those approaching retirement age to ...

Fix philanthropy from ground up: FYA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
The Foundation for Young Australians (FYA) has launched a new placement program for the younger generations of family foundations and PAFs designed to ignite philanthropic interest. The Immerse program involves taking six to eight people between the ...

Super funds line up for Sevior

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
Veteran stock picker John Sevior's new fund is being reviewed by CBUS Super for an Australian Equities mandate. CBUS - which had an Australian equities mandate with Sevior's former employer Perpetual at the time of his departures - said that it is doing ...