SUPERANNUATION

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At the same time as the Government looks to put a regulatory framework around the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority super performance tests, a financial adviser ...

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Some of the worst-performing super products have been carved out of the performance test putting consumers at risk of being stapled to a dud fund, according to the Austra...

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Suncorp has largely totally exited wealth, selling its superannuation business to LGIA Super which is currently in merger talks with Energy Super....

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Administration fees are one of the biggest drains on retirement savings and including them in the test will drive fast improvements to the super savings of over a million...

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Questions posed via a Parliamentary Committee may have been aimed at extracting expenditure information from major superannuation funds but they have confirmed just how d...

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Some 21 MySuper products currently on offer in the market and holding over $100 billion in funds are under-performers and their members simply don’t realise it, according...

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The Government is pointing to recent Australian Bureau of Statistics data as vindication of its superannuation early release scheme. ...

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Far from embarking on spending sprees, the majority of those who accessed their superannuation early used the funds for paying off household bills or mortgages, according...

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There is a very real chance that many super members will fall short financially when they retire as only 20% of members have consistently topped up their fund, according ...

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Advice fees levied by superannuation funds are relatively insignificant when compared to administration and investment fees....

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Industry superannuation fund REST has revealed the over $130,000 cost of being a member of Australia’s two largest superannuation industry organisations. ...

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In a move which will raise questions about politicising proceedings, the chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, Tim Wilson, has directe...

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