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RETIREMENT SAVINGS
Superannuation
The Federal Government has been told that recent changes to superannuation have effectively eroded the incentives for people to use superannuation as a savings vehicle....
Superannuation
Treating self-managed superannuation funds differently to industry funds with respect to franking credits is un-Australian, according to financial services academic, Prof...
Superannuation
New analysis from Rice Warner has suggested that the removal of volume-based adviser fees would challenge superannuation just as much as it would challenge planning firms...
Financial planning
People receiving financial advice are going to be better placed to deal with any move by a future Labor Government to remove refundable franking credits, according to the...
Superannuation
The SMSF Association is selling the message that you don’t need $1 million to set up a self-managed superannuation fund but regulatory uncertainty does represent a major ...
Superannuation
The Financial Services Council has found that ordinary Australians who are members of large super funds are the biggest group benefiting from franking credit refunds, adv...
Financial planning
The SMSF Association has announced the establishment of a Global Centre of Excellence for Retirement Savings in Adelaide....
Financial planning
Challenger annuities were now available to industry super fund, Local Government Super, along with others, through Link Group’s AAS platform....
Features
Australians are living longer and intending to work longer than ever before. Jessica Amir explores how the industry is evolving, what changes you can expect, and how to a...
Financial planning
Most people who sought financial advice were doing so at the last minute as they approached retirement, with many finding advice was out of reach for them....
Funds management
New analysis from Morningstar suggests planners can no longer rely on the original thinking behind the so-called four per cent rule on safe withdrawal rates....
Financial planning
If female employees could salary sacrifice five per cent of their salary before tax, their super balance at retirement would increase by $178,100, according to ANZ....
Superannuation
A new white paper labels as spurious claims that people need $1 million in super for a comfortable retirement, claiming that investment income trumps quantum....
Superannuation
The Financial Services Council has warned the Government against sacrificing national retirement savings to appease critics of the super tax concessions....
Superannuation
Aussies are taking more control on their retirement savings as 52 per cent say fees and better performance were reasons to switch funds, according to a report....
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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...