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StatewideSuper upgrades insurance

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
StatewideSuper has upgraded its income protection and death and total permanent disability (TPD) insurance cover for all existing members. The new upgrades will provide members with higher default cover and the option to take advantage of occupation ...

Centric Wealth reframes advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
Financial advisory firm Centric Wealth sets new benchmarks in its profession through a new platform that combines a 'real world' approach to risk management with best-practice investing and advice-focused technology. The firm has launched a new investment ...

MLC program attracts new planners

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
MLC aims to make a career switch into financial planning easier for people already working in the financial services industry through a new educational program. The MLC Pathway to Advice Excellence, which targets professionals already working in a similar ...

Yesterday today tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
"Oh, I love you more today than yesterday." - Diana Ross Yesterday Wall Street dropped big time "on concern rising energy costs will threaten the economic recovery." This was Bloomberg's - and most other financial market commentators' -- interpretation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
The Australian market has received positive leads from offshore trading overnight, with all three Wall Street indices ending higher, after European and Asian markets were significantly lower. Oil and precious metals surged again as the US dollar dropped ...

Gap widens for women's super

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
The average superannuation gap between women and men widened in the six months to June according to latest figures from AMP, analysed by Access Economics. Average fund balances for men rose from $43,840 to $54,061, an increase of 23.3 per cent for the ...

Three and a half men

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
Wall Street welcomed March with a big drop with the three major indices down about 1.5 per cent on the day. Oh boy, here we go again. News services were all over the place blaming the renewed spike in crude. Oil spiked - again! - because of reports ...

Super heavyweights reach out to younger members

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) hosted a roundtable for superannuation heavyweights yesterday as it prepares for its sponsorship of Youth Week in April, aimed at engaging younger Australians and their super. Held yesterday, the forum involved representatives ...

Macquarie Funds remove performance fee

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
Macquarie Funds Group has made drastic changes to the fees charged by its International Infrastructure Securities fund, including the removal of the performance fees charged by the manager. "We have moved to simplify the fund by removing the performance ...

PC recommends social insurance shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
The Productivity Commission has defied its critics and recommended Australia establish twin social no-fault insurance schemes in what is potentially the biggest recasting of the nation's health, welfare and insurance sectors in decades. The recommendations ...