INDUSTRY FUNDS

Superannuation

The latest Chant West data has confirmed a flat start to the new financial year for the median growth fund....

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Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has revealed what it asked and how the industry superannuation funds justified the money they spent on the latest ‘fox in t...

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Superannuation

The Financial Planning Association has warned the Government of serious unintended consequences associated with the implementation of its First Home Super Saver Scheme....

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Superannuation

Government risks advantaging wealthy retirees at expense of others with its Budget home down-sizing measure warns industry funds....

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Superannuation

If industry funds are donating or otherwise transmitting money to trade unions, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission says it won’t necessarily know....

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Superannuation

A former industry fund chief executive has questioned their use of the “not-for-profit” mantra as being something more suited to charities....

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Superannuation

The industry funds believe fund trustees know best what will suit their members on Comprehensive Income Products in Retirement with safe harbour arrangements being needed...

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Funds management

Industry Super Australia has declared an interest in agriculture investment in the right circumstances and with the right changes being made....

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Superannuation

Industry funds and the SMSF Association are in heated disagreement over the need to ban self-managed superannuation fund access to limited recourse borrowing arrangements...

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Superannuation

Independent data highlights chronic underperformance of bank-owned super funds, according to Industry Super Australia....

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Features

An increasing number of Australians are looking to pursue ethical investments outside of superannuation but, as Mike Taylor reports, there is a concern that some planners...

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Superannuation

Industry funds need to make sure they are not tainted by the scandals which have surrounded the banks, according to Australian Institute of Trustees acting chief executiv...

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Life/Risk

The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees wants all commissions and other forms of conflicted remuneration for the sale of retail life policies banned....

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Superannuation

One of Australia’s smaller industry superannuation funds has questioned the benefits of mergers and scale and argued that funds should prove their efficiency....

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Policy & Regulation

The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services has taken the industry funds to task over their own governance review, claiming it has fallen into a black hole....

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