Given the end of the 2011/12 financial year also represents the start of a 12 to 14-month countdown to the next federal election, the time available for Bill Shorten to m...
The deepening use of social media for member communication is pushing superannuation funds closer to transgressing the legal frameworks set in place to govern general and...
Industry experts believe proposed legislation and a new licensing regime will give way to like-for-like cost comparisons between SMSFs, industry and retail superannuation...
Both revenue and assets show decline in the most recent APRA life insurance industry data....
Amid the fall-out from Trio Capital it has been suggested that financial planners be required to warn clients establishing SMSFs that they are entering a higher risk envi...
The Federal Treasury has been asked why CGT rollover relief cannot be extended to SMSFs merging with APRA-regulated funds....
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has moved to correct the "misconception" that SMSF trustees have no legal options ahead of them in the event of fr...
According to APRA's superannuation overview for March 2012, total contributions have risen from the March 2011 quarter, although employers are stepping up for members who...
The dust has well and truly settled on the Federal Budget but, as Liz Westover writes, the Government needs to accept that its actions have served to confuse Australians ...
ASFA suggests money to fund the ATO on Stronger Super may not meet cost/benefit benchmarks....
In the wake of concerns about APRA's handling of the collapse of Trio Capital it has emerged that the regulator has little or no idea how well superannuation funds perfor...
ASIC has offered relief to trustee companies engaging in intrafund transfers, releasing approval criteria and unifying prior State and Territory requirements....
APRA will start a consultation process on delivering investment level performance later this year....
The Financial Services Council is concerned about how monies levied to fund SuperStream will be spent....
The time has come for a total rethink about how investors are looked after when there is a 'Trio Capital', according to SPAA's Peter Burgess....
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,...