MYSUPER

Superannuation

A superannuation roundtable has been told that extracting inbuilt advice from superannuation saved billions of dollars....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the Productivity Commission’s consideration of alternative default models represents the real superannuation idealogical battleground....

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Superannuation

The MySuper transfer costs have mostly been passed on to members through a levy and the WSSA is questioning whether it has actually benefitted members....

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Superannuation

The Federal Government’s terms of reference to the Productivity Commission has opened the way for radical change to the default funds environment....

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Superannuation

A roundtable has concluded that the success of MySuper combined with more proactive industry funds makes it safe to remove default funds from industrial awards....

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Superannuation

If the Government does not act, then the super industry may have to build a MyPension environment....

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Superannuation

Australians could be losing out when it comes to their superannuation, due to “complex industrial law” preventing them from leaving default funds....

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Financial planning

DEXX&R data showed default super funds held a larger share of employer super compared to MySuper although both declined in the last quarter of 2015. ...

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Superannuation

More superannuation funds are looking to insource service provision, but investment management is only for the mega-funds....

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Financial planning

Strong growth in overseas share markets has helped MySuper funds to outperform SMSFs with 31 per cent on average allocated to overseas listed equities, an investment tren...

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Superannuation

Compare the pair. It is likely these three words are some of the best known, and most irritating, among financial planners and advisers and have grated with them for the ...

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Superannuation

The domination of industry super funds in the modern award system has left virtually no market for higher performing, lower fee funds, according to the Financial Services...

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The high cost of financial advice is hindering superannuation funds from tailoring their MySuper products to their members’ needs, CIFR research director Geoff Warren bel...

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Superannuation

SuperRatings believes member servicing will be vital as fee convergence takes place in superannuation funds under MySuper....

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Superannuation

The increase in the cap for concessional contributions has led to the fastest growth in seven years for discretionary contributions while compulsory contributions have pl...

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