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ING pushes harder into SME market

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2006
ING Australia has announced it plans to aggressively attack market share in the SME sector, unveiling enhancements to its Integra Super product largely centred around lower fees. On the back of an AC Nielson survey that revealed that ING was the first ...

ASFA and JUST Super call for changes in the Budget

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2006
The Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA) has called for an expansion of the co-contribution scheme and an abolition of age-based contribution limits, with JUST Super supporting ASFA's stance against a proposal to reduce employer contributions. ...

Finsia takes off with a new president

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2006
Finsia, the newly merged entity combining the Securities Institute of Australia (SIA) and the Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance (AIBF), completed its evolution at its Annual General Meeting (AGM), held today. The AGM was the last step in ...

Members Equity runs on with Fremantle Dockers

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2006
Members Equity Bank (MEB) has signed on as an official sponsor of the Fremantle Dockers AFL team for the next three years, joining other financial players in the footballing ranks. The Fremantle Football Club said that with MEB agreeing to become a ...

CSRF gets serious on insurance and currency

The Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF) has beefed up its insurance cover and brought two currency specialists on board ahead of its public offer debut in July. The fund's general manager Greg Cantor has said that they have appointed ...

Proposed super cut will widen inequality for women: IFSA

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2006
... earnings limit for when superannuation payments become compulsory from $450 to $800 a month, was recommended by the Government's red tape task force in a report finalised last week. "There are two competing interests, in reducing business red tape for ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2006
... move by the People's Bank of China (PBOC) to increase interest rates in the country where the economy is definitely running red hot. The PBOC raised its one year lending rate to 5.85 per cent - the first increase since October 2004 - from 5.58 per cent ...

Investors strike gold with LinQ

The new wunderkid in resources is Perth-based fund LinQ, which has managed to grow investor money by as much as 500 per cent thanks to astute plays made here and overseas. LinQ started life as Rothschild's resources fund 'Golden Arrow Fund II'. But ...

ASFA slams proposal to cut super

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2006
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has slammed a Government task force suggestion to cut employer super contributions, a move it says will drastically reduce part-time and contract workers' superannuation savings. The proposal ...

More Australians feel financially secure

In a welcome change to recent surveys on the nation's chronic savings gap, the latest ipac Financial Security Report has found that 62.1 per cent of Australians are feeling financially secure, an improvement from the 43.5 per cent figure in 2005. Ipac's ...