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LUCRF Super extends Community Partnership Trust to SA

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
Australia's first industry super fund, LUCRF Super has launched its LUCRF Community Partnership Trust in South Australia. Senator Anne McEwen officially launched the Community Partnership Trust in Port Adelaide on 2 July. She announced Western Youth ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
The Australian share market has opened significantly higher as positive manufacturing data out of the United States and Europe improved investor confidence. The market is more than 1.5 per cent higher, almost regaining all of Monday's losses in the ...

SelfWealth to distribute through BGL

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
SelfWealth has signed a wholesale distribution agreement with software supplier BGL Corporate Solutions. The SelfWealth solution will be integrated into BGL's Simple Fund 360, which will be released later this year. BGL and SelfWealth will integrate ...

BT overcharged customers, refunds $2.3m

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
BT Financial Group is refunding Wrap and SuperWrap customers that paid adviser fees in excess of disclosed percentage rates. The company is 80% of the way through the review and has already refunded $2.3 million to its investors and 1,890 of them have ...

ECT relief should apply to non-concessional contributions: SPAA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
Amendments to the excess contributions tax (ECT) should be extended to include non-concessional contributions, according to SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) chief executive Andrea Slattery. Amendments to the Fairer Taxation of Excess ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
The Australian share market has opened lower as local investors worried about comments out of China that its government is less committed to strong growth. The market is about half a per cent lower, which follows similar-sized losses on Wall Street ...

Platforms surpass pre-GFC levels

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
The platform market has broken funds under advice (FUA) records in the March quarter, after plunging during the global financial crisis (GFC). An uptick in investor confidence and an increase in adviser productivity could be behind the growth of the ...

Mother of all hard landings and other BSes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Australia appears to have started this new week, new month, new quarter new financial year with a little bit more stride in its steps. This could be because of the world's biggest central bankers' comforting ...

FSC lobbies Rudd for last minute FoFA delay

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has asked new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a last-minute delay to the commencement of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) and StrongerSuper reforms. Due to begin on July 1, the FSC has lobbied for a 12-month delay ...

Advisers saturate HNW space

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
An increasing number of advisers are turning their attention to servicing high net worth (HNW) clients, a market that is fast becoming overcrowded according to Harris Fraser managing partner Marc Geary "It has been harder and harder to service the HNW ...