ASSOCIATION OF SUPERANNUATION FUNDS

Superannuation

The requirement to hold an AFSL when providing advice should extend to SMSF property spruikers, says ASFA....

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Policy & Regulation

ATO’s approach to the segregation of pension assets aimed at SMSFs, despite implications for large APRA-regulated funds....

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Editorial

Just because both the Government and the Federal Opposition have, in their own ways, undertaken not to significantly alter the superannuation settings in a post-election ...

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Superannuation

Professor Sally Wheeler from Queens University, Belfast has argued that structural independence may work against the outcomes it seeks to imbue. ...

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Superannuation

ASFA’s latest data shows increasing costs in some areas have been offset by cheaper costs in other areas, leading to a modest increase in the cost of funding retirement. ...

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Superannuation

ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos says there are too many organisations representing super and it’s time to blow it up and start from scratch....

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Editorial

There were some raised eyebrows when Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden announced his organisation would be developing policy with the Industry Super...

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Financial planning

ASFA chief Pauline Vamos urges Commonwealth departments and agencies to continue working on the implementation issues around financial services legislation despite the Go...

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Superannuation

SMSF representative bodies will be included in a forum being convened in an effort to create a common approach to superannuation policy in Australia. ...

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Superannuation

ASFA warns that narrow rules around three working day rollovers could have negative impacts....

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Superannuation

Australia should emulate France in introducing a "floating retirement age", according to the Combined Superannuants and Pensioners Association. ...

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Superannuation

ASFA calls for community involvement in survey to gather views on the future of Australia’s super system....

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Editorial

The financial services industry’s approach to post-retirement has long been regarded as stale. Critics’ voices have become ever louder and, as Janine Mace reports, the in...

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Life/Risk

Funds receiving compulsory lost super transfers via the ATO should be required to deliver on insurance, says ASFA....

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Superannuation

The high level of unknowns resulting from rapidly completed super legislation will require the regulators to be tolerant....

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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