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UK adds SMSF after slashing Australian pension schemes

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has added an Australian pension scheme to its qualified recognised overseas pension scheme (QROPS) list after slashing the number of Aussie funds from 1,600 to one on July 1. From early September, the P Wyns ...

Super law changes "political suicide"

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... licensees that focus on national and international taxation law. "There's a number of people from Australia who work overseas, whether it's in Dubai or Chile or Russia, with the oil projects. And vice versa: people coming to Australia and working here," ...

Zero-margin platforms could target Australian market

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
Australia's "slow to innovate" investment platform landscape could be threatened by the arrival of overseas "zero-margin" providers, according to Bravura Solutions research. Referencing economist Jeremy Rifkin's The Zero Marginal Cost Society, Bravura's ...

Colonial First State awards $55m mandate

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... principals of 8IP. Both have extensive investment experience, having held senior roles in financial services in Australia and overseas. Walsh said: "Stock picking is the key to investing successfully in the small cap space. We continue to identify exciting ...

Super funds act to reassure members

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... international property assets last financial year. Australia's largest industry super fund has also held a large exposure to overseas assets and foreign currency, which have increased in value with the fall in the Australian dollar. "This has helped ...

Fintech start-ups painted as future heroes

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... their own financial security on the line," Dunn said. There is already demand for Australia's fintech start-ups to head overseas, particularly in the United Kingdom and Singapore - something not lost on Stone and Chalk. "We need to be under no illusion ...

ACSI calls for better company disclosure

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... non-government organisation assessment frameworks and examples of good disclosure practice by leading Australian and overseas companies. ACSI is a collaboration between 29 Australian profit-for-members superannuation funds and six international pension ...

A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... Australian dollars. Wait there's more! Australian import-competing industries would also get a bump up as products sourced overseas become more expensive in A$-terms. There goes our overseas holiday trekking, but as long as it helps our fellow-Australians ...

Bangkok bombs and Malaysia's terror

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... jumped to 4.3% -- the highest since January 2014 - from a low of 3.75% in February this year. Bloomberg reports that, "Overseas investors cut holdings of Malaysian debt by 2.4 percent in July to a three-year low of 206.8 billion ringgit, central bank ...

Super funds hunting further afield for overseas assets

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... investors, as it is for institutional investors across the globe, and they are looking for reliable partners to get access to overseas markets. "One of the big things for institutional investors is that they want to see our own commitment and alignment ...