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High net worth tax crack down

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2006
... individuals with net wealth of around $30 million will come under the tax office's spotlight, as will the promoters of aggressive tax schemes. Along with the release of the Compliance program 2006-07, Tax Commissioner Michael D'Ascenzo, said there would ...

Design menus to encourage proper choices: MLC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2006
... example is that we are overly fearful of making bad choices and consumers therefore tend to make choices that are very aggressive. "The pain of losing $100 is thought to be two and half times greater than the joy of winning $100," said Abley when presenting ...

Investors don't use timeframes when choosing options: FuturePlus

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2006
... its running hot, as Livanas said, "six to nine months after bull market conditions investors start to switch to more aggressive member investment choices." The problem however is when they do this, "Investors expectations of returns of returns tend to ...

Time for another Wallis Inquiry

... adopt a 'soft touch' approach to regulation and yet the HIH collapse prompted calls for the watchdog to have a more aggressive stance. Harper also suggested that a comprehensive review could examine "whether the stronger emphasis on enforcement brings ...

Staff churn at 452

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2006
... Australia's multi-manager OptiMix's Australian equities fund and manages 30 per cent of Russell's Australian Shares Aggressive Fund. Russell's director of portfolio management, Symon Parish, said they would look closely at the staff changes but added ...

Morgan Stanley steps up local game

Short of using a brass band and a bugle horn, global giant Morgan Stanley Investment Management plans an aggressive push locally and is due to launch a series of funds, including Australian equities, while also hitting the recruitment trail. For an ...

Pillar to get $4.5 million IT upgrade

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
... put their AAS heavyweight super fund administration business on the market, the initiatives may signal a much more aggressive push by Pillar, whose clients already include State Super (NSW), First State Super (NSW) and industry funds AGEST, Australian ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2006
... nervousness over a bubble in commodity markets, concerns that rising global interest rates may curb global demand, and aggressive profit-taking. While worries about the sustainability of demand and the fear of higher rates are still in the market, the ...

ING pushes harder into SME market

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2006
ING Australia has announced it plans to aggressively attack market share in the SME sector, unveiling enhancements to its Integra Super product largely centred around lower fees. On the back of an AC Nielson survey that revealed that ING was the first ...

Babcock & Brown swells infrastructure by $3.4bn

... million. The acquisitions are more than double BBI's market capitalisation of around $2.3 billion, signifying the group's aggressive push into the infrastructure market. "The acquisition of NorthWestern further establishes Babcock & Brown Infrastructure ...