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Cut super tax, boost co-contribution

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
The government's 15 per cent contributions tax on superannuation guarantee payments should be reduced and the co-contribution policy revamped to boost national saving levels, suggests two major finance industry bodies. The Association of Superannuation ...

China's investor confidence crisis

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
Following a decade-long bear market that led to a huge sell-off in the 1990s, China's investors have experienced spectacular stock gains since the wave of partial privatisations two years ago. But a dramatic sell-down that shaved 10 per cent off share ...

VFMC boosts inhouse investments by 25pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) chief investment officer, Leo de Bever, delivers on the strategy he outlined a year ago after the fund's allocation to external fund managers falls from 100 per cent before he joined to almost 75 per cent ...

Direct equities gain ground in platforms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
Fund managers can't afford to be complacent after leading platform groups noted a marked shift of fund flows to direct equities instead of managed funds. Anthony Waldron, superannuation and investment manager at MLC, said that while inflows into their ...

Vanguard upgrades with SimCorp

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
Vanguard Investments Australia has selected SimCorp Dimension to provide all its middle and back office services to accomodate the group's growing funds management business. SimCorp Dimension will replace the existing system including the trade capture ...

BNY Mellon scores first NZ mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
Global financial services company BNY Mellon Asset Management has announced that its Australian distribution subsidiary arm has won its first institutional client in New Zealand. Auckland Regional Holdings has appointed BNY Mellon Asset Management Australia ...

Super funds to hold firm despite market crisis

Against the doom and gloom predictions surrounding debt and equities markets, historical data and projections from Selecting Super suggest Australian super funds will ride the market volatility and stay in the black by year-end. Analysts and research ...

Life ban for adviser after altering codes

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
Disgraced Tasmania-based financial adviser Adam Grant has been permanently banned from providing financial services after being caught manipulating broker codes to siphon commission payments. ASIC banned Grant, who was employed with Shadforths Limited ...

Super advice for $199

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
Westpac throws a fresh challenge to the industry on making advice affordable after it introduced a low cost superannuation advice service this month. In an effort to help Australians with low superannuation balances receive financial advice, Westpac ...

A fresh take on deductible contributions

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
Tax deductibility on personal super contributions has long been a bone of contention among many Australians but a superannuation specialist thinks there's a simpler way to approach the subject. Macquarie Adviser Services head of technical services ...