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Costello launches Simpler Super ad campaign

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
Treasurer Peter Costello and Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton today launched a $69 million campaign to educate the public about the changes in superannuation that come into effect from 1 July. The "Better Super" initiative aims to inform Australians ...

Advisers want transparency from licensees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
Adviser groups charging their franchisees too much is forcing practices to consider switching groups or whether they should set up on their own, said Darren Wise, managing director of Financial Planning Services Australia (FPS). "Some adviser practices ...

Consulting the cows

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
Ask 100 economists to predict the direction of interest rates, economic growth and inflationary pressures, and you would invariably get 100 different answers. In Cambodia they ask the royal cows. Heavily reliant on agriculture, Cambodia's ancient ploughing ...

Inflation could still rain on the parade

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2007
Interest rates may be on hold for another six months and we could see a larger than expected cash surplus resulting in multi-billion dollar pre-election tax cuts. Fears of increasing consumer spending impacting inflation would already seem justified ...

Fincorp failure burns 8,000 investors

Around 8,000 investors will either lose all their money or get back 30Ac in the dollar following the collapse of property group Fincorp. KordaMentha, the insolvency administrator appointed to the case, said that preliminary figures showed that about ...

PE stirs academic heat

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
The wave of private equity (PE) investment stirring political concerns in the UK, and to a lesser extent in the US, has prompted Australian academics to attempt a review of how PE investments should be regulated in Australia. Speaking at the Barbarians ...

Index funds basking in the glow of 6,000

With the S&P/ASX300 Index zooming past 6,000 points last week, investors in index funds can look back at another year of exceptional passive returns. According to Rainmaker Data, the top 10 index funds last year achieved an average return of 24 per ...

Agribusiness cops a caning from ATO

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
Non-forestry agribusiness managed investment schemes (MIS) are set to have their taxation position drastically altered after Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton yesterday announced the Australian Taxation Office was preparing a new Draft Ruling on the ...

MIA predicts property slump by 2010

One of the longest property booms in Australian history will end by 2010, according to research house Managed Investment Assessments (MIA) based on its sector report polling the views of eight of the country's leading property fund managers. Colonial ...

Salary sacrifice now three times more powerful

Salary sacrifice will become an even more powerful saving tool for Gen-Xers under Costello's latest Budget, allowing those 35 and under the option of saving at least three times more than in previous years. According to MLC, under existing rules, those ...