The number of people who are leaving industry super to establish self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) has been steadily increasing since 2004, according to new Vangu...
Australian superannuation fund returns have started the 2011/12 financial year in negative territory but, as Mike Taylor reports, most members have learned enough from th...
The financial services industry has celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Superannuation Guarantee and, as Mike Taylor reports, the industry funds have more to celebrate...
The slide in super returns to start the financial year is reminiscent of the GFC....
The use of advice technology by industry funds is not something to fear according to a technology provider....
Exposure to infrastructure and unlisted assets has been a vital performance differentiator between industry and retail superannuation funds, according to the ISN. ...
The median growth superannuation fund recorded a 9.2 per cent return last financial year, with industry funds finishing just a nose in front....
New research confirms consumers who use financial planners are generally happy with the service they receive but, as Mike Taylor reports, it also points to how many clien...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief executive, Mark Rantall, has pointed to the fact that many industry fund planners are members of the FPA....
SMSF trustees are more satisfied with their lot than most super members, but mostly when returns are high....
Those establishing SMSFs can come from almost any background....
Industry funds are set to outperform retail master trusts thanks to their specific allocations....
Andrew Bailo takes a look at the issues arising from the Future of Financial Advice reforms, and concludes that the harmful changes outweigh the beneficial ones....
SMSFs continue to dominate super assets, but are not fastest growing....
Recent reports suggesting that a group made up of industry funds, consumer groups and trade unions was ready to drop support for ‘opt-in’ if planners agreed to no longer ...
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,...