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ALP would cut financial literacy funding: Dutton

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
The Federal Government's www.understandingmoney.gov.au website has picked up a 'highly commended' award from a top selling internet magazine, but the Government has warned voters that the Opposition would cut funding for the Financial Literacy Taskforce ...

Cbus wins Investment Stewardship Award

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
Cbus has won the Melbourne Financial Services Symposium's inaugural Investment Stewardship Award recognising long-term investment achievement by a financial services organisation. To win the award, finalists were evaluated according to financial results ...

Senate passes super changes

The Simplified Super legislation has passed through the Senate with the Federal Opposition supporting the changes. Under the legislation superannuation benefits paid from a taxed fund will be tax-free for people aged over 60 and reasonable benefit limits ...

Challenger buys into Homeloans

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
Perth based home loan originator and funder Homeloans Limited has found itself a long-term business partner and investor in the form of Challenger Financial Services Group. The two companies announced on Friday that Challenger would invest in two stages. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
Average weekly earnings data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics released yesterday showed that in seasonally adjusted terms full-time adult ordinary time earnings rose by 0.7 per cent during the period from August to November last year. This meant ...

Vision Super goes public

NICK OLIVER  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2007
Vision Super has been granted a public offer licence and will soon be launching its new public offer Vision Superannuation Fund (VSF). The new fund will be based on the current fund but will include new products and features, enabling the employer-sponsored ...

Passive hedge fund investing in vogue

The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index Tracker Fund attracted an impressive US$5 billion of investor money in the past two years, proof that more investors want hedge fund performance but at "index" fees. "While the [tracker] fund was set up in ...

AMP FP to call 35,000 over switching advice

AMP Financial Planning (AMP FP) said it will review the superannuation switching advice it gave to around 35,000 clients, revised up from an earlier estimate of 7,000, as part of its enforceable undertaking (EU) entered into last year. Coinciding with ...

Fight the ATO not Govt on MIS tax ruling: Costello

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
There is growing unrest within the tax-effective agricultural investment community that the Australian Tax Office's proposition to scrap the up-front tax concessions associated with non-forestry managed investment schemes (MIS) will cause havoc. Treasurer ...

In-specie transfers up 300 per cent: Multiport

Investors are transferring as many assets as they can into their self-managed super funds (SMSFs) to take advantage of the government's new super rules that will come into effect in July. SMSF administration services provider Multiport said the number ...