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Hunter Hall shares the wealth with staff

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
... rising in four steps to $20 million over the period to June 2015. Hunter Hall is also instituting a Profit Share Plan, an incentive for senior executives to earn between 6-15 per cent of the pre-tax profits where earnings are greater than 60Ac per share. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2006
Following the 178 recommendations of the Productivity Commission Taskforce on how the government might reduce bureaucratic problems associated with the administration of the GST and FBT, Treasurer Costello has announced that 158 of the recommendations ...

Migrating a UK pension easier with good advice

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
... super funds, not all Australian super funds qualify to be able to receive these transitions smoothly. There is a big incentive to do the transition properly, said Ford, because getting it right raises "the potential to preserve around 50 per cent of ...

Sunsuper sets out to educate employers

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2006
Queensland fund Sunsuper is undertaking an education program to raise employer awareness about the contemporary superannuation environment. Hosted in conjunction with the Australian Taxation Office and Commerce Queensland, the program is designed to ...

No conflict, more interest on MLC

Amid industry calls to curb conflicts of interest when giving advice, MLC will fundamentally change how it values an adviser's business from a model based on a set formula favouring in-house products to one based on an independent market valuation. ...

BankWest supports young savers with high interest rate

... the same month, the bank automatically awards 10 per cent per annum bonus interest for that month. There is a strong incentive to put a regular deposit and make no withdrawals because failure to do both results in a default rate of only 0.01 per cent ...

Westpac FP launches $500k super campaign

Westpac Financial Planning has launched a marketing campaign designed to help their existing clients realise the extra incentives to save for their retirement on the back of Treasurer Costello's proposed 2006 super reforms. In what is its first major ...

Super tax concessions cost more than they save: Greens

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2006
The Greens have issued a discussion paper that argues the cost of the tax incentives to encourage superannuation saving are greater than the tax savings we will later recoup through lower pension costs. The paper, The costs of ageing in Australia, a ...

True high conviction means big positions: Peters MacGregor

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2006
... that's 2 per cent off your total FUM," Craigie said, explaining why a true high conviction strategy means there is ample incentive to get your investment case right. If you were taking bets of only 0.5 per cent or less, like some managers, you may very ...

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. ...