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Superannuation

Figures from ASFA's Retirement Standard have shown costs for a comfortable retirement and modest retirement vary greatly and are largely affected by costs for leisure goo...

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Financial planning

The Government’s meddling with superannuation has earned the ire of a broad cross section of the financial services industry....

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Editorial

If, as is being widely speculated, the Federal Government uses the Federal Budget to once again alter the tax setting around Australia’s superannuation system, the ALP wi...

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds must ensure they are 'fiduciaries first and marketers second', according to Superannuation Complaints Tribunal chair Jocelyn Furlan....

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Financial planning

All financial advice is scaled to some extent, and 'there isn't some form of separation between holistic and scaled', according to ASIC senior executive leader Ged Fitzpa...

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Superannuation

Government warned that the costs of tinkering with superannuation could far outweigh the benefits....

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Superannuation

The Government has no reasons based on equity to alter the taxation arrangements applying to superannuation, according to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Austr...

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Financial planning

ASFA and the Institute of Actuaries join forces to point out a key flaw in ASIC's class order relief on superannuation forecasts....

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Superannuation

Consolidation is continuing to impact the broader superannuation industry, according to data contained in an ASFA submission to the Productivity Commission....

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Superannuation

ASFA has warned that the Government's inaction on CGT relief will be an impediment to its implementation of Stronger Super....

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Superannuation

Written complaints to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal about industry funds increased by 25 per cent last year, while complaints about retail funds decreased slight...

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Superannuation

The superannuation guarantee will gradually increase from 9 per cent to 12 per cent over the next seven years, following the passage of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax thr...

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Superannuation

The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees is advocating the appointment of more women to superannuation fund boards....

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Superannuation

Freya Purnell takes a closer look at what life after Stronger Super might bring to the superannuation sector....

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Superannuation

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has warned the Government not to tinker with the superannuation tax settings....

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