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UniSuper extends Bravura mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
Tech firm Bravura Solutions has extended its existing contract with UniSuper to licence Bravura's ePASS solution to employers. UniSuper is the industry super fund for Australia's higher education and research sector. The deal will see Bravura deploy ...

New mining tax is miners' own idea

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
Super funds and investors upset about the mining stocks plunge this week should shift their blame from the government and instead zero in on the miners themselves because it was their idea. In a 20-page submission to the Henry Review in November 2008 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to post a huge decline at the start of Friday's trading day, following a horror night on offshore markets as Wall Street shed more than three per cent and commodities prices went backwards. At 0757 AEST on the ...

APRA contacts funds on rollover fraud

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
Super funds are being told to double check rollover applications after the tax office contacted the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) about a number of phoney rollover requests. In a letter sent to APRA regulated super funds, the prudential ...

SG jump twice as bad as mining tax slug

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
The political focus might be on the government's $9 billion super profits tax slug on miners, but employer groups say lifting SG by one third will hit them twice as hard. "The superannuation levy increase is the biggest new taxing measure in the Government ...

Ord Minnett raises $600 million

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
Ord Minnett breaks away from its traditional stockbroking roots by expanding into term deposits, a move that raised more than $600 million in funds in the past six months alone. Tim Gunning, chief executive at Ord Minnett, has only been at the firm ...

ANZ wealth income doubles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
ANZ Bank's wealth income has more than doubled to $420 million as the ING Australia business slots into the bank. ANZ' underlying profit for the half year ending March this year found the Australian wealth division's total wealth income rose from $199 ...

New tech to track contribution caps

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
Macquarie Wrap has created a new online system to help advisers track whether clients' contribution caps are being reached. The new online Superannuation Contributions Report gives advisers a clear picture of client contributions into their Super Manager ...

Single-issue advice soars 59pc: ESI Super

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
Contrary to popular belief that Gen Yers are indifferent to their super savings, one super fund has recorded a 59 per cent jump in members seeking limited advice in the past three months. The fund recorded an increase in formal statements of advice ...

NAB/AXA merger not anti-competitive: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
Researcher Roy Morgan joins the chorus of dissenting voices on ACCC's reasons for blocking the NAB bid for AXA, releasing a report that shows a combined NAB/AXA or AMP/AXA would have the same impact on industry competition. Roy Morgan Research said ...