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AustralianSuper three year fee freeze

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
... highlight the issue of fees. "While our fee freeze initiative is helping our members we hope it will also provoke all Australians to question the fees and costs associated with their super," said Silk. "Many Australians don't fully investigate or understand ...

Indigenous Australians offered chance to Clime career ladder

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
Clime Asset Management will welcome an Aboriginal trainee into its business next month, with a view to helping them develop into an investment professional and prompt other firms to follow their lead and change perceptions within the industry. Clime ...

Tax forum tackles wealth management issues

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... chief executive, Mark Rantall, addressed the Tax Forum to ask the Government to provide aid incentives to encourage Australians to seek advice build retirement savings and reduce reliance on the Age Pension. Rantall suggested tax deductions for advice ...

Islamic fund opens doors to Australian investors

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... of seed capital from Aon Hewitt and will target the retail market and SMSFs in particular. While acknowledging that Australians have had access to the global Islamic market for over 20 years, Crescent Wealth aims to deliver a product available to all ...

AustralianSuper creates online advice portal

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
AustralianSuper members can now access intra-fund advice directly through its new-look website launched last month. The advice functionality offers super members personalised advice on contributions, transition to retirement and setting up a pension ...

AMP opens second retail planning centre

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
... join later this month. Opening on September 30, AMP said the centre is key to removing barriers to advice for more Australians and to bring affordable and scalable advice mainstream. Included in the centre will be AMP's specialist support team to manage ...

AustralianSuper awards fresh mandates as FUM soars

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
AustralianSuper has already handed out a series of large mandates this year and reached June 30 2011 with over $43 billion in assets under management up from $32.6 billion a year earlier. Fidelity won a $525 million Australian equities mandate in the ...

Call for realism on planner services

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
... Galagher. While much of the discussion around the Future of Financial Advice Reforms is centred around enabling more Australians to access financial advice, the key issue Galagher raises is whether those Australians even realise what that would entail. ...

New online super tracking portal

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
... consolidation an easier process, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is currently developing a new online form for Australians to track down any lost super accounts in their name. Part of the Stronger Super initiative, the form builds on the current ...

Be glad for A$ weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
... - it closed at US$1.0001 on 22 December 2010 - before rising to a high of US$1.1028 on 27 July this year that we, Australians, are now used to counting our legal tender not in terms of US cents but in terms of a dollar US plus some change. And just last ...