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Superannuation

ATO confirms identifying 140 illegitimate SMSFs and backs the Cooper recommendations....

Editorial

The Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, has outlined some of the Government's policy agenda, including a commitment to MySuper but, as ...

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Superannuation

Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten declares the consultative process around super reforms won’t be allowed to alter the ultimate policy outcome....

Financial planning

A leading superannuation body has responded to industry calls for regulatory intervention in investment labelling and promotion by claiming industry-wide agreement on the...

Financial planning

Regulators have again been urged to intervene in the issue of fund promotion as some of Australia’s biggest fund managers and super funds continue to market product...

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Financial planning

FIIG Securities' Stephen Hart examines fixed income assets and explores the arguments relating to direct investment or the use of managed funds....

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Superannuation

Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten has committed to both MySuper and SuperStream within three years....

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Editorial

New legislation governing how superannuation fund trustees may borrow under a limited recourse borrowing arrangement has left a number of questions unanswered, says Bryce...

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Editorial

Industry Super Network's David Whiteley has called for industry-wide reporting protocols, but such measures may reveal more than he intended, writes Mike Taylor....

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Superannuation

The National Institute of Accountants (NIA) has called on the Government to explain its so-called contradicting comments regarding self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF...

Editorial

The financial services portfolio is emerging as a launch pad for political careers and Bill Shorten finds himself confronted by a worthy opponent in Mathias Cormann....

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Superannuation

Super funds will have to work even harder to keep their members, as one-third of them have expressed a desire to set up their own self-managed superannuation fund in the ...

Superannuation

Super assets take hit in June quarter with corporate funds most exposed, but annualised data remains positive....

Financial planning

The Rule of Law Institute of Australia has formally called for a judicial inquiry into the coercive powers utilised by Australia’s financial services regulators, in...

Superannuation

More than 80 per cent of industry superannuation funds expect to have some sort retirement solution product in place within the next three years – and half of those expec...

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