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Superannuation

Research from the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has reconfirmed that there is still a “significant disparity” between retirement incomes for men and wo...

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Superannuation

As the world approaches the 10-year anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse, ASFA finds that the diversified nature if super funds have stood members in good stead....

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Superannuation

Australian super funds are staying competitive with world-class investment returns, with the average super fund outperforming the Future Fund after adjustments over the l...

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Financial planning

Retirement costs increased in this year’s June quarter, with the costs of health services, transport and clothing the main drivers, the Association of Superannuation Fund...

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Superannuation

Self-managed superannuation funds should be made to pull their weight in paying for extending SuperStream to the SMSF sector, according to the Association of Superannuati...

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Superannuation

First State Super chief executive, Michael Dwyer has received an industry lifetime achievement award....

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Superannuation

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has said that Australia has one of the best retirement savings systems in the world, hitting out at “misleading analy...

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds are not equipped to deal with judging whether members are seeking to circumvent criminal compensation arrangements and the issue should be left to th...

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Superannuation

The key superannuation and financial services stakeholders were neither informed nor consulted about the Government’s proposed one-year amnesty on employer superannuation...

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Policy & Regulation

There have been new calls for greater transparency around how the financial services regulators are spending the levies extracted from the industry....

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Superannuation

The financial industry may have underestimated the dramatic fall off in retiree spending, according to Milliman’s analysis....

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Superannuation

The Government has received a negative financial services industry response to its move to make insurance inside superannuation “opt-in” for those aged under 25 and those...

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Superannuation

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has rejected the Grattan Institute’s proposal to dump superannuation guarantee increases, labelling it a “contrived a...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been urged not to allow the newly-formed Australian Financial Complaints Authority to name and shame relatively l...

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Superannuation

Yesterday’s report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) Life Insurance Inquiry reinforces the importance of the Insurance in Superannuation Voluntary Code of Prac...

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