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Medicare to handle compassionate super payouts

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
The government has relieved the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) of its duties to administer the early release of superannuation on compassionate grounds, handing the responsibility to Medicare. Only around $1.5 million of super savings ...

Tora improves electronic platform

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... launched a new compliance engine that enables clients to write targeted trading rules and helps with compliance. TORA Compass 7.0 allows users to create specific rules for particular orders, portfolios or fund mandates. Violations of trading rules can ...

Financial planners to improve soft skills

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
Financial planners can now learn behavioural skills to help them sell insurance to clients through a new training course offered by AXA. The Risk Learning Program has two main components, one that teaches advisers to discuss life, TPD and income protection ...

60 Minutes deception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... mammoth deception that went on that gave the world a new acronym - GFC. There were no significant data out overnight, no compass to steer the global financial world north or south. And true to my mother's constant warning when I was a little boy - "if ...

CBA launches capital protection funds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has launched a new capital-protected investment, Capital Series Compass, which offers investors a choice of two investment themes - an Australian share market or Australian/Hong Kong blend. The Capital Series Compass offers ...

ASIC adjusts redemption rules to help pensioners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
Financial watchdog ASIC said it may offer exemptions to existing government rules on 'frozen' mortgage funds that will allow mortgage fund operators to release funds to unitholders based on 'hardship grounds'. This relief will apply on a case-by-case ...

Gen X-ers choose brokers over banks

... for emergencies, only 26 per cent had actually used those funds for this purpose. The research was conducted by Insight Compass between May and June this year and involved more than 300 mortgagors and at least 45 phone interviews in each state. Michelle ...

Regulators clamp down on illegal super schemes

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) have found that the number of promoters of illegal access of super schemes has increased and warned consumers that those who sign up face tough legal ...

Antares teams with Lodestar for absolute returns

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2007
... located in the southern hemisphere. Lodestar is also named after a heavenly body or derived from lodestone, part of a compass which points to the pole star. The new fund has so far lived up to its stellar name and according to Morgan should continue ...

Credit Suisse pulls MasterWrap off the shelves

... group is looking for a successor fund with further details ready by August. Industry views Travis Morien, director at Compass Financial Planning and one of the small but loyal base of advisers who use the platform is disappointed about the news. "I would ...