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Government scraps Labor's annuities reforms

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
... part of the 2013-14 budget, DLA earnings would have received the same tax concessions that investment earnings on superannuation assets currently receive. But while the government has said it will not proceed with these measures, Assistant Treasurer ...

Challenger acquires SMSF business

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
Challenger Limited has entered into an agreement to acquire self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) actuarial certificate provider Bendzulla Actuarial. According to Challenger, Bendzulla has a market share of more than 50% serviced through relationships ...

Managed accounts take the hassle out of hedge funds

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... investors' needs." Allocations to alternative asset classes, including hedge funds, are increasing in Australia as superannuation funds and other institutional investors recognise the need to diversify their portfolios and mitigate against market falls ...

Future Fund defiant in face of airport legal proceedings

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013

Industry funds should offer SMSFs: QMV

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
Industry superannuation funds should consider offering self-managed super funds (SMSFs) to their members, according to QMV Super Solutions chief executive Brad Goodall. Goodall, who heads up the Melbourne-based superannuation technology consultant and ...

LGS carbon screening possible, but not imminent

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
The board of Local Government Super (LGS) will consider toughening its screening of investments in companies exposed to coal mining and other fossil fuels, but is unlikely to make any decisions before February, according to LGS head of sustainability ...

Praemium strikes deal with RBS

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
Praemium International Limited, a subsidiary of Australian company Praemium, has cut a deal with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to provide platform services to RBS International's ex-pat clientele based in the tax haven of Jersey. Under the deal ...

SPAA defends status quo on SMSF regulation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
The self-managed superannuation super (SMSF) sector is not being poorly regulated, according to SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) chief executive Andrea Slattery. Slattery's comments came in response to a recent survey in which around ...

Expected retirement age slowly going up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... current and future generations of retirees as while 61% of currently retired people said they had contributed to a superannuation scheme, 93% of future retirees said they had done so. This different experience of superannuation is expected to have profound ...

Insto investors urged to challenge private equity ethics

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... practices like tax avoidance, retrenching workers, extracting high fees and destabilizing companies. But while superannuation funds and institutional investors in Australia account for around 60% of private equity funding, existing ESG standards do not ...