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Potential budget super alterations welcome

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... lower income earners are not taxed at a higher rate than their ordinary income. The report, A husband is not a retirement plan, made 19 recommendations that included abandoning a proposal to lift the Age Pension retirement eligibility age to 70; and ...

EQT chair to stay on despite plans to depart

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
Equity Trustees has announced that its board has requested its current chair to stand for re-election, despite his previously announced plans to stand down at the next AGM. As a result, Tony Killen will submit himself for re-election at the AGM on October ...

Instos turn to smart beta in low-return world: SSGA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
Institutional investors worldwide are turning to objective and factor-based investment approaches, such as smart beta, to meet their investment goals given the global low interest rate environment. This is one of the findings of State Street Global ...

Associations support adviser standards amendments

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
The latest legislative amendments to raise the education, training and ethical standards of financial advisers have been welcomed by the industry's peak representative groups. Both the Association of Financial Advisers and the Financial Planning Association ...

MLC appoints advice GM

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
MLC has appointed a new general manager, MLC Advice. Jasia Fabig has taken up the newly-created role having previously been MLC Advice Partnerships' head of practice development. Prior to that, she was head of sales and strategy at St. George Financial ...

AMP Capital partners with BetaShares for managed ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
AMP Capital has announced a partnership with BetaShares to launch a series of exchange-traded managed funds on the ASX. The first three will be the AMP Capital Dynamic Markets Fund, the AMP Capital Global Property Securities Fund and the AMP Capital ...

Sunsuper offering pension bonuses

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... super funds (SMSFs) or being paid out as a lump sum. Sunsuper's Britton said the new product was all part of the company's plan to raise members' awareness "that from their very first day of work, right throughout their working lives and into retirement ...

Fiducian acquires three further firms

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
Fiducian Group has acquired three separate financial planning businesses in the Perth catchment area, for total consideration of $1.2 million, to be funded by cash. The acquisitions reflect Fiducian's strategy to expand its financial planning network ...

Boomers surprisingly open to fair super tax changes

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... call for changes to the taxation of superannuation. Chief among the findings was that 48% of respondents support Labor's plan to lower the upper limit for concessional tax from $300,000 to $250,000 while 29% are in favour of a Grattan Institute proposal ...

Trust in financial advice falling

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... financial advice in 2015, down from 40% in 2014. The survey found that a greater number of Gen Y have a long term financial plan (48%) compared to Gen X (38%) and Baby Boomers (37%). A growing number of respondents also believe that financial advice ...