SUPER FUNDS

Financial planning

Treasurer Peter Costello has lambasted calls for superannuation savings to be cashed out and used by first home buyers to finance housing deposits....

Financial planning

BT Financial Group has developed a new software program that channels superannuation contributions to various funds in an attempt to lighten the administrative load that ...

Financial planning

Three giants of the superannuation industry have combined in a bid to tackle the ongoing issue of financial illiteracy after conducting research that found almost 60 per ...

Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has picked up where it left off prior to the Federal Election and is back on the lobby trail appealing for the re-ins...

Financial planning

A trio of superannuation funds totalling collective assets of nearly $700 million and more than 13,000 members today announced their decisions to outsource the operation ...

Financial planning

A new survey has reinforced superannuation fund member apathy towards choice of fund with findings that only one in 10 people are likely to switch funds when the new regi...

Financial planning

The chief executive of Rothschild Australia’s Golden Arrow Funds, Clive Donner, has bought out the funds for an undisclosed amount....

Superannuation

The future of Australia’s mushrooming $130 billion self-managed super funds industry is bracing itself ahead of the weekend’s Federal Election, according to the SMSF Prof...

Financial planning

Growth orientated super funds have had a bumpy start to the 2004/05 financial year but ended the September quarter in positive fashion after global shares markets, Austra...

Financial planning

The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has indicated it will release a key paper on infrastructure investment next month after superannuation funds were called on to bolster...

Policy & Regulation

Superannuation industry figure Barbara Smith has on the eve of the Federal Budget urged Treasurer Peter Costello to remove some of the taxes on super funds because they a...

Financial planning

Private Portfolio Managers (PPM) will launch its listed investment company PPM Investments on March 1 after lodging its bid to offer the product with the Australian Secur...

Financial planning

Wrap provider Praemium Portfolio Services has signed up another four groups to its service - bringing its total number of client adviser users to over 400....

Financial planning

Industry superannuation funds led the broader bounce back in superannuation assets under management for the June 2003 quarter, after posting an 8.5 per cent rise or $4.4 ...

Financial planning

The Australian Parliament’s primary supervisory watchdog, the Australian National Audit Office, has recommended tightening the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’...

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