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US consumers to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... And coming to a theatre near you...renewed tension in the Korean Peninsula and rising LIBOR rates. Take your pick. It's so easy to expand on any or all of these factors to provide one bearish scenario. We already know how the bears extrapolate the European ...

Simpler, faster, cheaper rollovers: IFF

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
... to use e-commerce as the building block for a more efficient rollover system. "Our goal with the project is to make it as easy as possible for investors to consolidate and manage their super," he said. "Through this collaboration we'll be able to speed ...

Sell in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... Kevin Rudd's 40 per cent Resources Super Profits Tax), then contagion... then everybody suffers. GFC mark II is born. It's so easy to extrapolate isn't it? Just as I warned in GFC mark I be careful what you wish for, it may become a self-fulfilling p ...

New tech to track contribution caps

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... and in some cases, can actually lead to the client being taxed at an effective rate of more than 100 per cent. "Accurate, easy-to-run and efficient reporting can make a big difference to the advisers who are responsible for assisting their clients to ...

Rules, rules, rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
... investment and finance industries are reportedly joining forces with the US Chamber of Commerce... to convince US Senators to go easy on financial regulatory reform. The Chamber of Commerce has reportedly more than doubled its "donations" to US$25 million ...

Hockey calls for FSR review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... get out of the way of delivering financial advice." He said FSR was designed to be a flexible framework that would enable easy delivery of financial products and would not advantage one technology system over another. FSR started in 2002 and implemented ...

Farmland ripe for the picking

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
... opportunity to gain double-digit returns is appealing, Barbara Wall, editor of the report, said finding the investment is the easy part, paying the right price and structuring a suitable investment vehicle has proven to be harder. "Land consultants have ...

Can fee-for-service insurance advice work?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
... their time and resources. White said that with people who have no health problems (also called 'clean skins'), it's very easy to structure a fixed fee but not so for those who have complicated health and other finance-related issues. As for the total ...

Ready, steady, communicate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
... proactively inform them of changes to legislation, investment options and market conditions which would impact them. "It's very easy for funds to say their members don't really care and therefore the funds don't need to invest time and resources to engage ...

On the shoulders of giants

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... better retirement savings for their members. But Howes admits that the discussion around merging funds together is not an easy task. Finally, one of the challenges for today's trustees is to deal with succession planning, calling on the attendees to ...