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Younger Australians taking interest in superannuation

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... most concerned about super adequacy, missing investment opportunities and changes to superannuation rules. People from Western Australia and Tasmania were the least concerned. Those who have children are more concerned about having enough for retirement ...

FPA announces winners of research grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... right. Speaking about the grants, chair of the Grant Standing Committee of the FPEC, Sharon Taylor of the University of Western Sydney said: "Academic research in financial planning is essential for underpinning the growth of financial planning as a ...

PROFILE: Bernie Ripoll

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... would end up reshaping financial advice. "There were only a couple of paths available for kids like me, growing up in western Brisbane: taking on an apprenticeship or joining the military," he explains. Ripoll opted to join the Royal Australian Air Force ...

GESB switches consultants from Mercer to JANA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
Western Australia-based super fund Government Employees Superannuation Board (GESB) has confirmed it has switched asset consultants from Mercer to JANA. A spokesperson for the $17 billion, 354,000 member fund, which caters to employees of the state ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... Likewise, the Bank of England voted to keep its main interest rate at 0.50 per cent. HONG KONG - Asian markets rose as Western and Russian leaders tried to broker a deal to end the Ukraine crisis, and Wall Street providing a tepid lead following an anaemic ...

Singapore lifts CPF rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... insurance premium subsidies. Acknowledging the reform package as a major reversal of Singapore's traditional resistance to Western-style welfare state policies, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said in his budget speech ...

WA Super appoints Shanahan as chair

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... undergone changes such as a fund overhaul and a rebrand. The overhaul will expand the fund's membership base so to include all Western Australian employees and businesses. WA Super currently has over 44,000 members and is the only locally based superfund ...

CSIRO to study super spending habits

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... Superannuation Research Cluster brings together researchers from CSIRO, Monash and Griffith Universities, the University of Western Australia and the University of Warwick in the UK.

Suncorp names new head of intermediaries

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... acting basis. He was previously Suncorp's state manager of intermediaries for Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. Prior to that he held positions at Macquarie and Commonwealth banks. Suncorp Bank's executive general manager Danny ...

Frontier market corporate governance greatly improved

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
... established economies in Africa, the Middle East and South America fall short of the high governance standards of their Western counterparts has hampered large scale investment. However, the managing director of AFM Investment Companies, Advance Emerging ...