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Call for self-funded retirees inclusion

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
Sunday's carbon tax announcement has produced mixed results for pensioners with approximately 285,000 self-funded retirees to miss out on the compensation scheme for pensioners, according to the National Seniors Australia. As it stands now, pensioners ...

Credit Suisse appoints former BlackRock MD

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... all three of our business lines, across alternative investments, asset allocation and advisory and emerging markets," said Neil Harvey, head of asset management, Asia Pacific. "We are confident that he will co-ordinate the Bank's global network to deliver ...

Company streamlines pension transfers from UK to Australia

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... UK amassing pensions which are difficult and time consuming to transfer to Australia, especially for financial advisers. Neil Jones, director of Pension Porter, a company set up to handle pension transfers, said they had deployed a cloud-based computing ...

Macquarie Private Bank scoops up Merrill Lynch MD

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
Merrill Lynch managing director Jay O'Neil will become the next head of Macquarie Private Bank, Macquarie said today. O'Neil must first wrap up his duties at Merrill Lynch over the next few months before moving to Australia to take up his new role as ...

DKN acquires 25pc in Godfrey Pembroke firm

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
DKN Financial Group has acquired a 25 per cent stake in former Godfrey Pembroke licensee, StrategyOne Advice Network, to provide compliance, professional development, research and platform administration services to its advisers. The move is inline ...

Excess contributions penalties soar to $400m

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... rise yet further. Speaking at an upper house enquiry of the economics legislation committee, the ATO's deputy commissioner Neil Olesen confirmed the figures, a sharp rise from previous estimates that $100m had been raised from 15,000 assessments. Olesen ...

NAB Private Wealth winners at private banking awards

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
NAB Private Wealth has received multiple accolades at the Australian Private Banking Council 2011 Awards ceremony in Sydney, topping the awards table by winning more categories than any other private bank. Private bankers from National Australia Bank ...

UniSuper keen to boost after-tax returns

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... the next challenge is for fund managers to make tax considerations an integral component of their investment process," said Neil Detering, head of GBST Quant. GBST Quant is a quantitative data services business that delivers after-tax investment analysis. ...

Energy Super joins $50bn admin platform

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... administration processes and all the advantages that come with implementing a market leading superannuation platform." said Neil Harvey, managing director, IFAA. IFAA other clients include Club Super, ISPF, QIEC Super and Mercy Super.

Neilson loosens reins at Platinum

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
Platinum International has restructured with founder Kerr Neilson loosening the reins to let team members Jacob Mitchell and Andrew Clifford lend a hand in managing the flagship global equity fund. The fund had $16.2 billion in assets as at December ...