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Investors get conditional agreement against Great Southern

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
Litigation funder Bentham IMF has reached a conditional settlement against the collapsed agricultural investment scheme Great Southern. According to a release on the ASX, the terms of the settlement remain confidential to the parties and are to be the ...

SPAA calls for reduction in SMSF levy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
The Australian Taxation Office's (ATOs) annual levy on self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) should be reduced in the May budget, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). SPAA's senior manager, technical and policy ...

Advisers to complete 60 extra education hours under TASA

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
The Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) has proposed that registered tax advisers complete a minimum of 60 hours of continuing professional education (CPE) in three years as part of the Tax Agent Services Act (TASA) 2009 legislation. The TPB released Exposure ...

Asia Funds Passport on shaky ground

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
The Asia Funds Passport will never get off the ground because the majority of fund managers in the region are already aligning their products with European UCITS standards, according to EY Asia-Pacific and EMEIA asset management leader Roy Stockell. ...

AMP Flexible Super adds new insurance and investment options

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
AMP has changed its insurance option and added new investment choices to its flagship retirement product, AMP Flexible Super. AMP said the new death and total and permanent disability (TPD) insurance option, Super Protection, will offer allow customers ...

Never good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
Yeah, it's good but... This is the overriding verdict of the country's oft-quoted economists to the latest Australian national accounts report that showed our economy grew by a larger-than-expected 0.8% (expectations 0.7%) in the December quarter and ...

AMP becomes outright owner of NAB House

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
AMP Capital Wholesale Office Fund (AWOF) will acquire the 25% interest in NAB House at 255 George Street, Sydney, bringing its stake in the office tower to 100%. National Australia Bank (NAB) remains the main tenant of the building. AMP Capital wholesale ...

CFS outlines post-awards plans

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
Colonial First State (CFS) has revealed how it will approach a post-awards environment, including the use of advisers and targeting business bank customers. The fund management and super arm of banking giant Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has ...

Nine in 10 Australians can't get no insurance satisfaction: survey

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
Only a select few among working Australians are on top of their insurance needs, leaving the door wide open for financial advisers who have mastered the ins and outs of good insurance. Late last year, insurer Zurich surveyed 394 working Australians ...

Fund managers expect clients to turn aggressive

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
Almost half the world's fund managers expect their institutional clients to adopt a more aggressive investment strategy in 2014, according to a global survey by Towers Watson. The survey, including responses from 128 investment managers (the majority ...