INDUSTRY FUNDS

Superannuation

Melbourne-based life insurance broker Family Care Australia has entered into an alliance with MetLife Insurance to offer self-managed superannuation fund members “discoun...

Editorial

The future of corporate funds, outside of the very largest ones, has emerged as a major source of speculation within the super industry under Choice. Speculation ranges f...

Financial planning

Any analysis of the success or otherwise of superannuation choice on its first anniversary would be incomplete without revisiting the industry speculation on its potentia...

Financial planning

AMP Financial Planning has claimed a lack of demand is the reason for removing industry superannuation funds from its approved list, but Industry Funds Services has impli...

Life/Risk

While insurance premiums are in the spotlight because of an attempt to reignite debate over fees charged by superannuation funds, research has found consumers’ propensity...

Financial planning

The compulsory 9 per cent superannuation guarantee levy plus the advent of the Government's new co-contributions arrangements saw the nation's superannuation assets rise ...

Superannuation

After you’ve clocked up a few years in the workforce, those fantasies about driving off into the sunset seem to come up a lot more frequently. But if the federal governme...

Editorial

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Financial planning

Self-managed superannuation funds are unlikely to grow as quickly as other fund types, while corporate funds will lose members in the short term, a research report has pr...

Financial planning

In further proof that choice of fund was no more than a flash in the pan for advisers, a new survey has found just a third of the very few people who switched funds and s...

Financial planning

Only one retail fund has featured among the top 10 rankings in a SuperRatings survey of balanced super fund performances last year....

Financial planning

Industry superannuation funds have emerged as the initial winners in the early stages of Australia’s new choice of super fund environment, according to a survey conducted...

Superannuation

It was a good year for industry superannuation funds with strong inflows, which can be partly attributed to a controversial advertising campaign....

Financial planning

Total estimated superannuation assets grew by 6.7 per cent over the September 2005 quarter to $791.5 billion, according to APRA....

Financial planning

Industry Funds Services chair Garry Weaven has called on the Australian Consumer Association to extend its proposed investigation into trail commission to superannuation....

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