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Divorcing super

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
Divorce battle over self-managed super fund assets and art ownership within SMSFs raises tricky questions over what happens when only one of the splitting couple is a fund trustee. Many Australian couples are often unaware of the effect divorce can ...

Super back in the spotlight

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
After being largely overlooked during the election campaign and in the scramble to form government, Resources Minister Martin Ferguson has put superannuation policy firmly back in the political spotlight. The Minister called on mining companies and ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
Another week, another dollar will be gained or lost. Or perhaps, I should say, another week, another dollar gained, then lost, then... Yes Virginia, such is the financial markets' current collective myopia that while there had been a lot of shakin' ...

Yen sunk but not for long

BENJAMIN ONG IS FINANCIAL STANDARD'S DAILY COLUMNIST ON THE ECONOMY  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010

Super segmentation comes of age

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
Age is nothing but a number, even in super, with one researcher ambitiously setting up a new template to segment fund members beyond the usual Gen X, Gen Y and Baby Boomer divide. The 2010 Ultimate Superannuation Marketing Metrics study, conducted by ...

Macq Life Active premiums reach $1 million

NEWS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
Macquarie Life Active has surpassed $1 million in premiums, just 10 weeks after launching. Macquarie said 180 advisers have submitted applications for the product on behalf of 500 clients. Over 30 per cent of the advisers are either new to Macquarie ...

BHP anticipates global carbon price

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
Marius Kloppers, chief executive officer of BHP Billiton, discussed at a key industry event yesterday the impending impact of a global carbon price being set and what effect this will have on companies such as BHP Billiton. "Economies like ours, with ...

Advisers told to bring in the romance

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
Everyone is talking about fee-for-service advice and how adviser and their clients will respond when it comes to crunch time, but apparently, a successful adviser-client relationship is all about the romance. Steve Pink from pHuel, a motivational business ...

No easy fit for health insurance: super

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
Super funds offering health insurance as a bundled product would be an ideal evolution of the savings and healthcare industries, but achieving this goal is a long way off - if it ever happens, insurers say. Jeremy Cooper, chair of the Super System Review ...

Titanium challenges rating

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
Camden-based fund manager Titanium Asset Management said S&P fund services' research on one of the group's funds contain "major inaccuracies", and has requested S&P to withdraw its 'sell' rating on it. S&P Fund services assigned a "sell" rating on the ...