INDUSTRY FUNDS

Financial planning

Master trusts have outperformed industry funds in the year to June 2010, but only for the second time in the past decade, according to latest figures from Chant West....

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Financial planning

Contrary to the concerns of many in the financial planning industry, the vast majority of phone-based intra-fund advice services offered by industry funds are manned by f...

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Life/Risk

A push to ban insurance commissions in super is being driven by those who are against commissions on principle and fail to see the different nature of commissions in the ...

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Financial planning

Australia’s total estimated superannuation assets increased by 2.6 per cent in the March 2010 quarter to $1.26 trillion....

Financial planning

The Industry Super Network has claimed planners are lobbying to water down the Future of Financial Advice changes....

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Editorial

Sean Graham dissects the arguments made by industry super funds and some financial planners of the commissions-based remuneration of insurance in recent issues of Money M...

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Financial planning

The scandal surrounding the Melbourne Storm has resulted in industry fund Hostplus reviewing its sponsorship of the disgraced rugby league team....

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Financial planning

Financial planners need to stop fighting 'trench warfare' over different models of advice before it drives away consumers, according to the managing director of Snowball,...

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Financial planning

ASFA joins with IFSA in questioning the validity of APRA fund-level data....

Superannuation

The superannuation sector has been hit hard in recent years as funds suffered greatly at the hands of market volatility. Angela Faherty takes a look at what the future ho...

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Superannuation

Dixon Advisory is arguing against the imposition of mandatory minimum SMSF balances on the basis that it would amount to excluding one part of the population....

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Financial planning

A London-based class actions specialist has claimed Australian super funds are costing themselves and their members billions of dollars by not joining US securities class...

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Financial planning

Financial services licensees are continuing to scratch their heads over a way to communicate the value of advice....

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Financial planning

Morningstar is making a push into industry superannuation funds research on the back of demand from financial advisers....

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Financial planning

Fewer high-net-worth investors are using financial advisers, according to research conducted by CoreData....

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