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Super cap breach stings 65,000

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... 65,000 Australians have breached their concessional superannuation contribution cap leading to excess tax on their retirement funds, according to Government figures. In a response to a Senate question by Shadow Assistant Treasurer Mathias Corman, Federal ...

Adviser banned for life

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... when in 2005 he tricked the two self-funded retirees from Walleroo into signing away more than $900,000 of their retirement funds as security for a margin loan facility he operated, ASIC said. He used the account to trade shares and options until the ...

Korea's big four dominate pensions

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
... existing severance schemes. As a result, at the end of 2009 there were 34 asset managers managing 255 registered retirement funds. The top ten of these asset managers account for 86 per cent of total registered retirement fund assets (KRW 1.1 trillion) ...

Westpac upgrades online trading platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... also have improved access to managed funds allowing them to search, compare and invest in investment, super and retirement funds. Westpac Online Investing has more than a quarter of a million customers. The relaunch in January 2010 ensured customers ...

Bill backed for calling placement agents lobbyists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... step closer to restoring people's confidence in California's pension systems and ensuring the integrity of these retirement funds, which people have worked their entire lives to earn." Hernandez introduced AB 1743 after investigations last year revealed ...

BT Super for Life hits the mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... activated account means it's attracting superannuation guarantee payments or the customer has rolled their existing retirement funds into the product. "That's a fantastic number given most people take around eight to 12 weeks to activate their account," ...

SuperAlphaFund closes shop in Australia

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... for its local arm after discovering that the name "superfund" is an ubiquitous term in Australia, referring to retirement funds in general.

Retirement savings only last a few years

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
Australians' retirement expectations are out of sync with their savings - with new research showing that retirement funds only last a few years before they dry up. The 24th AMP.NATSEM Income and Wealth Report noted that Australians are expected to spend ...

ISN to APRA: get on with it

... default options, are master trusts. Keevers said Rainmaker monitors returns each month for more than 200 super and retirement funds and several thousand investment options, freely posting top fifty league tables for each major asset sector over one ...

SIPPs back their expertise

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... are similar to a self managed super fund (SMSF) where investors are in control of the asset allocation of their retirement funds. "Throughout the market turmoil of the past year we have consistently seen our more knowledgeable clients take an 'instividual' ...