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Coalition pledges support for super laws amendments bill

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... Amendment Bill, granting tax relief to superannuation funds which do not acquire a MySuper licence. Under MySuper regulations, funds which do not offer a MySuper product must transfer the funds of members' who hold a default account into the MySuper ...

IFM mulls Asia office

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... export our IFM culture, but we would want that together with a national who understands the nature of the clients and regulations," he said. The office would be solely focused on business development and Himbury said there were no immediate plans to ...

Fund CEOs slam MySuper as 'death by a thousand cuts'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... reforms were pointless. The report also found that industry funds feared that the government's tinkering with super regulations would continue to push members towards self-managed super funds (SMSFs). Some respondents said they were countering this by ...

Praemium launches FoFA-ready CRM tool

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... their technology providers assist them to deliver practice efficiencies, grow their businesses and comply with new regulations. We are very pleased that the addition of WealthCraft offers just such assistance," Praemium CEO Michael Ohanessian commented. ...

AQUA II poses a challenge to wraps

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Widely seen as an alternative to big platforms, the AMFS will be exempt from regulations demanding 'wet signatures' on product disclosure statements (PDSs). This will strengthen the position of smaller investors ...

Study finds dark pools damage market quality

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
... Firstly, he recommend that fair access requirements be modified and the 5% threshold of exemption from lit market regulations be reduced. "This would address the price inefficiencies arising from lack of liquidity provision competition within dark pools ...

Regulation remains unclear a month out from FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
... requirements on advice to offshore clients and excluding calculators from the FoFA regime. "There are a number of regulations that the treasury is still dealing with and that we are still negotiating with at the moment," De Gori said. "But it shows how ...

US hedge funds abandon Europe on new regulations

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
A number of large US hedge funds have scrapped plans to enter Europe and have put existing operations under review in response to new European regulation, the Financial Times has reported. Their retreat comes in response to the arrival of the Alternative ...

Trans-Tasman super rollovers exclude SMSFs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
The government's finalised regulations have allowed superannuation rollovers between Australia and New Zealand but exclude self-managed super funds (SMSFs). From 1 July 2013 it will be possible to transfer retirement savings account proceeds between ...

Markets poised on knife-edge: Standard Life Investments

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... chase for yield, but we expect the great rotation to be much more glacial than many commentators have said. The new regulations for institutions to hold liquid assets will see them remain in fixed income markets." Strong housing and auto sales figures ...