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Northern Trust wins Mutual Trust custody mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
... Trust is a full-service provider to the Australian and New Zealand market and delivers a range of solutions for institutional clients including Australian investment accounting and tax, unit registry services, investment operations outsourcing, and specialised ...

Australian expats pension protected

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
A new agreement between Australia and India that protects expatriates' pension rights is expected to save about $10 million annually for Australian businesses operating in the south Asian country. The social security agreement came in to force this ...

Macquarie makes bid for listed property portal

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
Macquarie has made a bid to acquire Onthehouse, a popular online real estate research portal listed on the ASX. The bid would see the banking group (via subsidiary PIQ1) and 77VSV acquire 100% of Onthehouse capital at $0.755 per share. Because two Onthehouse ...

Choice of super fund won't always work: REST

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016
... businesses, superannuation funds, life insurers, and financial advisory networks, supports more super fund choice. It said institutional links between super funds with equal representation boards and trade unions gives rise to conflicts of interest that ...

Super switches estimated at $35 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2016
A sample from more than 100,000 Australians with superannuation shows about one-third were prepared to change their super fund without financial advice during the past three years. From the selection of 2002 respondents interviewed as part of the Roy ...

Financial services among top taxpayers

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Financial services firms are paying some of Australia's highest tax bills as a percentage of their total income according to data released by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) yesterday. The measure highlighted that six financial services companies were ...

SMSF borrowing triples in four years

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Limited recourse borrowing arrangements within SMSFs have almost tripled in four years, the latest Australian Tax Office (ATO) statistics show. The proportion of SMSFs with borrowings has risen from 2.3% of funds in 2010 to 6.7% of funds in 2014. At ...

IFM Investors sell Pacific Hydro to SPIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Global fund manager IFM Investors has sold Australian clean energy company Pacific Hydro to the Chinese-based State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC). IFM Investors was not surprised by the level of buyer interest in the business which runs 19 wind ...

SIV interest wanes after rule changes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Applications for Significant Investor Visas (SIVs) have fallen dramatically since new rules requiring investment in start-ups and emerging companies were introduced in July. Reports from November showed there have been just 19 applications since the ...

Pillar layoffs unrelated to privatisation

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Pillar Administration has denied that calls for voluntary redundancies are related to the upcoming sale of the company. In fact, Pillar chief executive Peter Brook explained, the superannuation administrator had been planning to reduce employees since ...