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FPA extends free online advice service

FPA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... as part of FPA's Financial Planning Week. Volunteer advisers are on hand to answer basic finance questions ranging from salary sacrifice to CGT and superannnuation. But Jo-Anne Bloch, FPA chief executive, said that the association is extending the service ...

HESTA improves insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
... cover to provide benefits of up to $25,000 a month. This however is subject to an increased limit of 85 per cent of their salary. Death cover for HESTA members have also been revamped. Now the basic two units will provide $170,000 of cover before they ...

Job freezes to thaw: Watson Wyatt

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... staff cuts and changes resulting from the GFC will be reversed. Despite 60 per cent of employers planning to turn around salary reductions, 20 per cent of employers are holding firm to their current arrangements. Another 20 per cent are sitting on the ...

Super changes hit retirees

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
... for the first time in their working careers they are in a position to begin increasing their super contributions through salary sacrifice and by making additional personal non tax deductible super contributions to fund their retirement. "Unfortunately ...

Finsuper members flock to new insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... protection for up to 20 units or $10,000 per month have also been increased to a maximum of 85 per cent of the worker's salary. The insurance upgrade comes into effect from July this year at no extra cost to members. AustralianSuper negotiated the insurance ...

Ten years is too short: CBI

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... steps must be taken if businesses struggling with the recession are not to be hit further by their defined benefit 'final salary' pension schemes. The business organisation pointed out that investigating pension plans where deficit repayments will take ...

Raise SG to 15 pc: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... SG using soft compulsion methods whereby employers automatically deduct additional super contribution from an employees salary, while employees can opt-out of the scheme. David Anderson, Asia Pacific business leader at Mercer's Outsourcing division ...

Super concession cuts were overdue

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... years ahead," he said. Oliver was commenting on budget measures that included marginally winding back the superannuation salary sacrifice limits and temporarily reducing the co-contribution scheme. Senator Nick Sherry, minister for corporate law and ...

AMIST offers fee-for-service advice

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... allowed to access a tailored "full financial planning service" which is a step above basic advice such as those pertaining to salary sacrifice and budgeting, he said. But AMIST is not done with its financial planning strategy yet. The fund is looking ...

Top 10 budget quotes

... annual concessional contribution caps, ASFA research found this measure will impact less than 4 per cent of people who salary sacrifice into super. "This means that the arrangements for the vast majority of employees using salary sacrificing will not ...