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Praemium renews with MSSB

LOREN RUGEBREGT  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... as the industry solution for wealth management firms to achieve business efficiency. "(It does this) through the use of modern investment administration and tax management functionality not available from the traditional wrap account and master trust ...

Commonwealth trustee reforms passes Senate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
Legislation consolidating the trustee arrangements of the Commonwealth's main military and civilian superannuation schemes into a single entity passed the Senate this week. In a statement, the government said the new structure will modernise commonwealth ...

Minister faces down advisers over opt-in, risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... agreement every two years is beating financial planners to a pulp," he said. Minister Shorten said he did not accept that in a modern office advisers could not organise around opt-in with a minimum of fuss, given a three-year lead-in time. The Minister ...

PC to review how defaults appointed to Awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... process favours union based industry super funds, which now represent the top ten most commonly listed default funds under modern awards. But while a review would be likely to make the way funds are appointed as defaults in Industrial Awards more open ...

Finsia selects new CEO

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
The Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) has appointed Russell Thomas as chief executive officer and managing director. Having joined the Securities Institute of Australia (SIA) in 2003, working in the professional education department ...

SuperChoice launches online payment platform

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
Superannuation clearing house SuperChoice is providing a new online solution for employee superannuation payments in conjunction with Sybiz Software. The product, Sybiz Visipay, will enable organisations to make staff super contributions to any compliant ...

Insurance advice needs to pick up the pace

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... reluctance of insurers to amend or broaden their product to accommodate the needs of the changing activities undertaken by the modern fund manager." "The real value in a fund managers insurance program is often the 20% of additional or enhanced coverage ...

April launch for XPLAN facelift

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... package more user-friendly with XPLAN 2.0 to boast larger FaceBook-style buttons. "We've standardised the features to be more modern," he said. "It's also got better tables and better charting." "We set out rethinking... from the user's perspective. ...

Annuities help combat longevity risk: Cooper

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
Jeremy Cooper, the newly appointed chair of Challenger Retirement Income, spoke at an adviser roadshow about the threats of longevity, inflation and market risks on retirement savings, raising concerns that most portfolios are too equities-focused in ...

Egypt not just another pyramid scheme

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... role in the region, especially as it is a treaty partner with Israel that - thanks to US foreign military aid -- has a modern airforce just as large as Israel's but with many more modern battle tanks and an equally impressive array of satellite defence ...