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Professional Associations Super names new chairman

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
Professional Associations Super has appointed Frank Gullone as chairman, it was announced today. The industry super fund oversees around $2 billion of funds under management on behalf of over 420,000 members across RecruitmentSuper, Accountants Super ...

Adviser retraining delivers in spades: BT

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
A mentoring and retraining programme that's been rolled out to half the 450 financial advisers within the BT-owned dealer group, Securitor has already delivered a significant revenue (fees-based) boost after one year. Dubbed 'taking back control', Matt ...

FPA calls for greater scrutiny of fund managers

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
Fund managers must be held to account just like financial planners, says The Financial Planning Association's Dante De Gori. Research from State Street published yesterday showed that less than half of Australian's believed advisers acted in the best ...

CareSuper scoops SelectingSuper awards

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012
CareSuper has won both Super Fund of The Year and Best Long Term Performance at this years SelectingSuper awards, held in the MCG members Dining Room in Melbourne this morning. Fund of the Year is awarded to the fund or platform with the best overall ...

Beware greedy SMSF intermediaries

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... SMSFs. They are a very complex tool that require the expertise of a professional adviser along with the help of an accountant and lawyers," he said. "A self-managed super fund is a very powerful way to deal with people's retirement savings but there ...

Hood Sweeney announces three new directors

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... Sweeney and works in the Accounting and Business Advisory team. He has more than 20 years' experience as a chartered accountant and lawyer, having previously held senior roles in corporate tax and advisory, private banking and the property sector. "In ...

Mercer partners with superMate in SMSF market

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
Mercer has formed an alliance with Supercorp's cloud platform superMate to offer its clients a more efficient service to order actuarial certificates. The self managed super fund (SMSF) administration provider 'superMate' is designed to allow accountants ...

Mortgage brokers told to target SMSFs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
The exponential growth in self managed super funds is turning them into one of the most attractive sectors of the investment market, this time attracting the interest of mortgage brokers who are being told they should target the sector. Doug Lee, head ...

Tax-efficient giving advice missing: Macquarie

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
Advisers who don't evolve their businesses to cater for growing client interest in philanthropy risk being left behind. That's the conclusion of Queensland University of Technology research which reveals a growing demand among high net-worth clients ...

Super returns nudge GFC barrier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
After almost five years, super funds are finally in line with their pre-GFC peaks of October 2007, a preliminary report from SelectingSuper's latest super funds performance survey reveals. According to the report, workplace default fund rolling 12 month ...