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Bailey to stay in fin services after Fidelity resignation

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
Former Fidelity International in Australia (Fidelity) head of institutional business Gary Bailey will remain in the financial services industry, despite resigning from the investment manager earlier this year. Bailey who spent five years at Fidelity ...

Retiree 4pct drawdown limits too high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
New research released by the Financial Services Institute of Australia (Finsia) reveals that the standard 4% retirement income drawdown may be too high and inadvertently result in retirement funds running out too quickly. The research is detailed in ...

SPAA calls for reduction in SMSF levy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
The Australian Taxation Office's (ATOs) annual levy on self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) should be reduced in the May budget, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). SPAA's senior manager, technical and policy ...

Advisers to complete 60 extra education hours under TASA

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
The Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) has proposed that registered tax advisers complete a minimum of 60 hours of continuing professional education (CPE) in three years as part of the Tax Agent Services Act (TASA) 2009 legislation. The TPB released Exposure ...

Fidelity to hire two after head of insto business resigns

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
Fidelity International in Australia (Fidelity) will recruit two new members for the institutional business team, in the wake of the departure of head of institutional business Gary Bailey. In a client note Fidelity said that it was committed to institutional ...

Asia Funds Passport on shaky ground

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
The Asia Funds Passport will never get off the ground because the majority of fund managers in the region are already aligning their products with European UCITS standards, according to EY Asia-Pacific and EMEIA asset management leader Roy Stockell. ...

Robeco fund recommended by Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
The Robeco Emerging Conservative Equity Fund has received a 'Recommended' rating from Lonsec. The Fund is an active, long only, quantitative emerging-markets equities strategy. It invests in listed equities in global emerging markets and the strategy ...

GSAM global bond fund receives Zenith rating

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
The Goldman Sachs Global Strategic Bond Fund has received a 'Recommended' rating from research and ratings provider Zenith. The Australian dollar-based strategy is designed to provide income and total return through exposure to a broadly diversified ...

Crimea makes it domestic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
My, my... Crimea has just put a new twist in the turn of the Russia/Ukraine saga. Crimea's Parliament voted - unanimously if I may add - to secede from Ukraine and re-join Russia (which it was part of it till 1954). The Crimeans will get their say in ...

HIP Super CEO resigns

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
Health Industry Plan (HIP) Super chief executive Ross Bernays has resigned from his role effective immediately and ahead of the super fund merger with Prime Super. HIP Super confirmed Bernays' resignation and a spokesperson of the fund told Financial ...