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Cavendish slashes SMSF starting fees

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Cavendish Superannuation has axed 30 per cent off the establishment fees of new self-managed super funds - easing the cost for financial advisers with clients looking to set up SMSFs. SMSF specialist Cavendish announced that establishment fees for all ...

Confusion in the inflection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... greater fool? Taking Wall Street's cue, most major equity markets around the world finished last week's trading activity in the red. But then again, most were also able to preserve their gains for the year to date. The S&P 500 index closed 5 per cent ...

Zurich expands Life Risk team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
Zurich Financial Services Australia has appointed Stuart Meyers as Life Risk Business Development Manager - NSW. Meyers has over 12-years experience as a BDM and has worked previously at ING and Asteron Life. "Meyers' appointment adds further experience ...

Plain English works best: Suncorp

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Suncorp Wealth Management has overhauled its communication strategy to help members better understand super, starting with a new communications guide for internal staff and a new look and feel to at least 100 types of letters it sends to members each ...

Perpetual starts legal proceedings to claim funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
Perpetual Trustee Company has started legal proceedings in the UK on behalf of more than 1,000 retail investors who invested in $125 million worth of credit-linked Mahogany Capital notes that were sold by Grange Securities. Perpetual, the security trustee ...

Pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
One for the bears. The pendulum has swung in favour of the 'dead cat bounce' camp as Wall Street clocked its third consecutive day of losses. The S&P 500 fell by 2.7 per cent overnight, taking its total losses over the past three trading sessions to ...

Super escapes budget knives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
Generally positive reactions by wealth managers to the second Rudd-Swan federal budget indicate the industry increasingly knows its place in the political landscape. Driving the mooted reaction is how kind the Treasurer Wayne Swan was to the superannuation ...

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
Most Australians by now would be suffering from Budget diarrhea. For there is no escape...everywhere you turn, it's Budget 2009 - the second for the Rudd Government and the first in contemporary Australian history of a tough one. Those were the days. ...

What-if scenarios bring Budget blues

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
New restrictions to existing superannuation and tax concessions could help the Government slash the predicted budget deficit in the next few years but this could come at a higher cost to superannuants and taxpayers in the long term, industry experts ...

Liongate snags $1 billion in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
London-based fund of hedge fund manager Liongate Capital Management has won over $1 billion in mandates since the start of the GFC - and the firm is now seeking new wins in the Aussie institutional market. While most fund of hedge fund managers suffer ...