The requirement to hold an AFSL when providing advice should extend to SMSF property spruikers, says ASFA....
ATO’s approach to the segregation of pension assets aimed at SMSFs, despite implications for large APRA-regulated funds....
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 ...
Professor Sally Wheeler from Queens University, Belfast has argued that structural independence may work against the outcomes it seeks to imbue. ...
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. ...
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....
There were some raised eyebrows when Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden announced his organisation would be developing policy with the Industry Super...
ASFA chief Pauline Vamos urges Commonwealth departments and agencies to continue working on the implementation issues around financial services legislation despite the Go...
SMSF representative bodies will be included in a forum being convened in an effort to create a common approach to superannuation policy in Australia. ...
ASFA warns that narrow rules around three working day rollovers could have negative impacts....
Australia should emulate France in introducing a "floating retirement age", according to the Combined Superannuants and Pensioners Association. ...
ASFA calls for community involvement in survey to gather views on the future of Australia’s super system....
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...
Funds receiving compulsory lost super transfers via the ATO should be required to deliver on insurance, says ASFA....
The high level of unknowns resulting from rapidly completed super legislation will require the regulators to be tolerant....
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...