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HESTA ready for advice boom

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
The $12 billion HESTA Super fund is ready to roll out intra-fund advice to its members following the Government's new legislative changes - a result achieved through its existing financial advice infrastructure. HESTA has had its advice program in place ...

ASIC reveals cap arising enhancements

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
ASIC has released new measures to boost market disclosure and efficiency in capital raisings and unlisted disclosing entities. The new equity raising policies released at the end of last week seek to streamline the fundraising process by faster and ...

CGT roll-over relief for super mergers

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
The Federal Government is expanding the optional capital gains tax (CGT) roll-over for capital losses for mergers of complying superannuation funds. Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, last week announced that the optional ...

James Hardie a case study on governance

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
Yesterday's civil proceedings against seven former non-executive directors and three former executives of James Hardie is a "landmark decision" in Australian corporate governance, said ASIC. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) ...

IOOF quadruples platform reach after Skandia buy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
Financial services group IOOF climbs through the ranks of platforms with the largest share of the non-aligned adviser market when it acquired Skandia Australia and Intech, a move that quadruples its slice of the sub-segment and adds more than $8 billion ...

Baracking for the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
"While our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken, though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this, we will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger ...

Planners champion risk advice

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Risk advice is today high on the agenda of advisers' businesses as a new survey shows advisers earn over a quarter of their practice revenue from risk products - a 30 per cent jump from 2007. According to the latest planner risk and risk technology ...

Calls to cut super contribs fails to get traction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
Simplistically rejecting the idea of temporarily cutting super contributions misses the big opportunity - putting superannuation into the economic frontline and making it part of our monetary policy heavy artillery. A group of economists lead by Nick ...

Super funds reject calls to cut super contrib

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
A group of economists lead by Nick Gruen, principal of the Lateral Economics consultancy, have written to the Prime Minister proposing that employer super contributions be cut from 9 to 6 per cent with the money transferring to employees as take-home ...

Que sera, sera

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
Roll out the printing presses. Cutting the Federal funds target rate below 1 per cent is certainly feasible. This was the statement delivered by US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in his speech before the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce in ...