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Challenger to launch new fixed income fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
... completed. "Advisers have been looking for ways to easily and reliably meet the minimum drawdown requirements of account-based pensions, so they can spend more time finding growth opportunities for their clients, who could be in retirement for up to ...

Austerity's political pay-off

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... coalition government, which has slashed government spending through cuts to public-sector employment and restructuring pensions, Custard commented that the UK was not safe from being caught up in the European slowdown and that austerity measures had ...

Hedge fund FUM to hit $2.3 trillion by year end

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... investors surveyed individually manage or advise at least $1 billion in hedge fund assets. They include public and private pensions, foundations and endowments, government organisations, funds of funds, private banks, investment consultants and family ...

Problem solved, not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
... 130 billion euros until 2014 could be handed over". Yes, yes, we know what those are - (more) cuts in jobs, wages, and pensions - and these "must" be inked into law by the Greek Parliament. But because he doesn't trust his Greek friends - L-A-W law or ...

Contrib caps improve super social equity

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... Australia being those on marginal tax rates of 30 to 38% it, however, has left open the threshold question of why age pensions should be means tested but not superannuation tax concessions. The ASFA research endorsing the role of contributions caps in ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... already agreed to its creditors' fresh demands for more austerity - more than 20% reduction in minimum wage, decreased pensions and the sacking of around 15,000 state jobs - to get its fiscal finances back to some semblance of order. It simply had no ...

ASIC continues Trio crackdown

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... scheme of Trio Capital. In this role he identified and recommended investments for ARP and its predecessor, Professional Pensions Pooled Superannuation Trust (PPPST). Maher received undisclosed payments of more than $2 million arising from investments ...

Post-retirement risk in Australia: IMCA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... market outcomes. John Piggott, professor of Economics at the University of New South Wales, and director of centre for pensions and superannuation in Sydney, said he was surprised by the poor uptake of annuities here. "The Australian context is one of ...

Super industry responds to MYEFO

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... 12 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) which included the extension of a draw-down relief for account-based pensions, something which Cooper said highlights serious superannuation flaws. As Challenger's chairman of retirement incomes, Cooper ...

Actuarial certificate delivery speeds up

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
... 2011 for a 2011 SMSF tax return which means that the SMSF tax return 'lag' which made figure rubbery for calculating pensions is no longer an issue." Mendelovits also said there would be "no gaps and extra stages" in the new process. "It is now about ...