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Financial planning

Superannuation fund Cbus has announced it will offer a financial advice offering for its members and their partners called Advice Essentials Plus....

People & Products

The member-owned financial services company has announced the appointment of Michael McQueen, former chief investment officer at Media Super, to its executive team. ...

Superannuation

Superannuation funds have been told they will not face regulatory action if they seek to divest Russian assets, although the closure of the Russian stock market is making...

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Editorial

There have been improvements to closing the gender gap in superannuation but women are still finding themselves penalised when it comes to their finances and their super....

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds and product providers creating retirement income products should look to create effectively default products as products requiring advice will not be...

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Superannuation

Super funds that invest responsibly are expected to take a bigger share of assets and are financially outperforming their peers....

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Superannuation

The prudential regulator will publish its findings of its investigation into the impact of the best financial interests duty on marketing expenditure of 12 superannuation...

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Superannuation

After a strong decade of returns despite a low-rate environment, returns in the superannuation industry are unlikely to be as strong, according to a panel of industry sup...

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Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has raised eyebrows by revealing the degree to which it wants to influence which funds merge with which. ...

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Superannuation

Along with a benchmark test, the superannuation performance test should also have an independent assessment by a panel of industry experiences, the chairs of major super ...

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People & Products

It has made three new key appointments to head its property, private equity and equity portfolio construction teams....

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Superannuation

Ten superannuation funds experienced outflows in excess of a billion dollars as a result of the Government’s COVID-19 hardship superannuation early release regime, with i...

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Superannuation

By largely dispensing with external investment advisers, big building and construction industry fund, Cbus has claimed a saving to members of around $135 million a year....

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Superannuation

New data has emerged suggesting as many as 5% of early release superannuation applicants entirely emptied their accounts while just 10 superannuation funds paid around 68...

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Financial planning

Industry superannuation funds have been delivered a clean bill of health on their use of third-party advice services. ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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