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Even interns need insurance, too: Asteron Life

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... $6,250 to $10,000, general practitioner doctors from $6,250 to $10,000, engineers from $3,750 to $5,000 or graduate accountants from $3,750 to $5,000.

Accountants jump on digital hub

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
The Institute of Public Accountants (IPA) has launched pubacct.org.au, a new digital hub for IPA members, the accounting profession and the public. The IPA intends to use the hub to extend its voice to the accounting profession, as well as consumers ...

Some auditors won't be counted

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
Some accountants who apply for the new self managed super fund auditor regime will be rejected, warned the boss of Australia's corporate regulator. Speaking yesterday at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) annual conference in Melbourne ...

Topdocs automates SMSF deed updating

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
... just the click of a button," Topdocs managing director Jake Spakman said. The system allows financial planners and accountants to choose between updating deeds automatically every year or updating whenever required. The new tool also simplifies access ...

Ex-drug dealers now hitting-up SMSFs: ACC

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
... often collecting detailed information to gain a "head start" before ripping off their victims. To the audience of SMSF accountants and advisers, Lacey said: "let me be clear, organised crime is targeting this [the SMSF] sector." The ACC spearheaded a ...

Industry urged to understand changes to transfer rules

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
... transfers, "the brokerage fees attached to that could be thousands of dollars," he said. He urged financial planners and accountants with self-managed clients to make sure they understand the intricacies of the cross method that they will soon need to ...

Caitriona Fay joins Perpetual's philanthropy business

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... philanthropy business. Currently, Perpetual supports over 540 philanthropic clients and actively works with advisors and accountants to help their own clients establish the most effective philanthropic structure.

Matthews Steer creates new wealth management arm

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
Melbourne-based Matthews Steer Chartered Accountants is to create a new wealth management division. The division will be known as Matthews Steer Private Wealth & Tax Management and headed up by director and qualified tax adviser Geoff Steer. The move ...

One-stop admin and investment shops target SMSFs

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
... major banks - are well positioned to aggressively move into the SMSF fund administration space currently dominated by accountants, according to Chris Lumby head of SMSF at BT. He says recent manoeuvres by AMP, and AXA to acquire specialists in fund administration ...

NZ Super Fund named world's most innovative

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... Fund, which on Tuesday won the Public Sector Annual Report category in the 2012 New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants Awards, for its 2010/11 Annual Report. Earlier in 2012 the Fund won the INFINZ Excellence in Treasury Award and the Executive ...