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Govt to amend fund merger tax laws

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... amendments will ensure that individuals whose superannuation benefits are involuntarily transferred from one superannuation plan to another plan without their request or consent are not disadvantaged through the application of the proportioning rule ...

TAL's Minto to retire, new CEO named

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
TAL Group chief executive officer Jim Minto will retire on April 2015 and a new chief executive will replace him. Minto will remain at TAL until the year end process is completed in the first half of 2015, TAL chairman Duncan Boyle said. TAL Life chief ...

Dover in search of compliance staff

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Dealer group Dover Financial Advisers has appointed a new executive to the compliance team and identified the need for at least two more to accommodate advice firms' growth. According to the latest Rainmaker Advantage report from March 2014, Dover is ...

Advice associations under conflict of interest on professionalism: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Advice industry self-regulation is not an appropriate model to increase professionalism in the financial advice industry, as associations have "an inevitable conflict of interest," the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has argued. "Industry ...

Opposition wants to postpone vote on FoFA bill

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Labor and the Greens have asked the government to postpone again the vote on the changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation until the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) releases its conclusions. "Labor Senators urge the government to withdraw ...

Expect more regulation on 'too-big-to-fail': Hockey

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... in serious taxpayer losses." However, Finance ministers and central bank governors announced that "work is underway on a plan that will increase consistency in banks' application of the strengthened Basel III rules on capital." The Financial System Inquiry ...

ASX mFund yet to attract major brokers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
More than three quarters of Australia's online retail investors could have difficulty accessing the ASX's mFund service because their existing broker does not offer access. According to figures from Investment Trends, collectively CommSec, E*Trade ...

CommInsure offers alternative to group insurance

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
Customers of Comminsure Total Care Plan Super insurance can now pay their premiums through their superannuation fund, giving superannuants an alternative to the group cover offered by their super fund. The change also means that policy holders would ...

HOSTPLUS to launch lifecycle option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... same time having access to daily liquidity." HOSTPLUS is still in the process of becoming a pooled superannuation trust (a plan it announced a year ago), after which non-members like self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) will be able to invest in ...

Morphic global fund added to the Macquarie Wrap

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
The Morphic Global Opportunities Fund has been added to the Macquarie Wrap Platform, shortly after it was listed on the BT Wrap. The fund is a long-short global equities strategy with a mid-cap focus that aims to provide flexible hedging strategies ...