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Financial planning

ISA claims ASIC’s fee disclosure requirement update leaves consumers in the dark on fees charged by ‘for-profit’ superannuation funds run by banks. ...

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Superannuation

Retirement plans of millions of Australians could be negatively impacted by proposed reforms of super fund governance, the ISA claims....

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Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has taken another look at the ISA’s compare the pair advertising campaign amid Senate suggestions it does not compare...

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Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has rebuffed industry fund arguments on super fund governance, arguing independent directors are both desirable and benefic...

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Policy & Regulation

The Government will consider further extending the existing FOFA provisions if reforms are not found to better align firm and consumer interests by 2018....

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia wheels out its chairman, former NSW Liberal leader, Peter Collins, to urge the new Prime Minister to review and reset super fund governance chang...

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Superannuation

As the Parliament moves to consider super fund governance changes, Industry Super Australia has released research claiming the big banks are taking a third of all super f...

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Financial planning

Advisers concerns over the impact the ‘three year responsibility period’ will have on their businesses must be a priority for the new Prime Minister....

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Financial planning

Industry Super Australia has called for general advice to be better defined instead of relabelled in a late submission to the Inquiry into the Scrutiny of Financial Advic...

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Superannuation

ISA will continue to push back against banks moving into the default super fund space with an advertising campaign urging employers to not pick banks for default funds....

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Superannuation

APRA has stated it sees no sizeable problems around the funding of Industry Super Australia and its lobbying efforts against Government Budget measures....

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Financial planning

Industry Super Australia has told the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority that retail super funds are disguising investment costs via the use of platforms....

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Financial planning

AIST and Women in Super have urged the Government to prioritise tax reform of superannuation as it is a key factor behind the gender gap in retirement savings....

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Financial planning

Industry Super Australia has warned that super fund governance changes carry with them the risk of contagion from importing finance sector norms....

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Superannuation

The productivity commission’s suggestion of lifting the super preservation age has met with mixed reactions from peak industry bodies....

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