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Make sure the right people inherit your super

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
With death benefit disputes accounting for the lion's-share of complaints received by the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal, Topdocs has now incorporated a death benefit guardian provision in its SMSF trust deeds. The specialist self-managed superannuation ...

Buyer's market for planning businesses: Radar Results

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
A decrease in interest rates means financial planners can fund the acquisition of financial planning businesses, creating a buyers' market. With interest rates moving down over the past 12 months, financial planners can now borrow at rates as low as ...

Adviser tablet ownership triples

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
Social media usage among financial advisers is on the rise as is their ownership of tablet computers, reveals Zurich's just released infographics report of new technology and social media. Zurich Australian Life and Investments' (Zurich) infographic ...

Australian instos exposed to AML risks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
Globalising investment and increasingly complex webs of counter-party relationships mean Australian institutional investors are more exposed to anti-money laundering risks than they realise. These risks don't just mean from organised crime, the usual ...

Former Ansett workers get $16m super payback

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
A decade after the collapse of Ansett, Australia's second largest airline at the time, former workers have finally been paid $16 million in super entitlements. Ten years ago the airline's 11,000 workers had their superannuation entitlements frozen after ...

NSW govt run annuity targets platforms

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
The NSW government will target the platform market with an annuity product as a source of funds for infrastructure projects. The 'Waratah Annuity Bond' guaranteed debt instrument offers retail investors in Australia the opportunity to buy an annuity ...

Scope for super participation in TPD education

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
Super funds have a role to play in public education on the implications of TPD member cover, according to Slater & Gordon Lawyers. Following a recent survey that showed only 47% of people knew total and permanent disability (TPD) insurance coverage ...

Real estate suffers as Europe goes DC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
Real estate allocations in European pension funds are now bordering on negligible amid a European shift away from defined benefit schemes, according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Paul Trickett, head of global portfolio solutions at GSAM told a ...

Fitzpatricks Private Wealth builds advice profile

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
High net worth advisory firm Fitzpatricks Private Wealth has signed John McMurdo in the role of group managing director and added Chris Cuffe to its board of directors. McMurdo, who was formerly chief executive officer of Centric Wealth and managing ...

Childhood determines who rises to the top

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
While workplace discrimination and family demands are commonly blamed for the lack of female chief executives, research has found that it's childhood issues that are more to blame. The research findings were revealed by Dr Terrance Fitzsimmons, post-doctoral ...