Financial advisers need to be careful in dealing with pension commencement dates, according to superannuation specialist Michael Hallinan. ...
TAL has upgraded its insurance offering in the superannuation market, including making its Superlink Stand Alone Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) offering available t...
SMSF representative bodies will be included in a forum being convened in an effort to create a common approach to superannuation policy in Australia. ...
Sequencing risk can have a catastrophic impact on a SMSF, according to Michael E. Drew, professor of finance at Griffith University and partner at Drew, Walk & Co. ...
Specialist financial services administration provider, Praemium has started a beta trial for a new SMSF compliance product....
Recent legislative change has cast a shadow over whether reversionary pensions are actually all that important, writes Aaron Dunn. ...
Australia should emulate France in introducing a "floating retirement age", according to the Combined Superannuants and Pensioners Association. ...
A number of important legislative changes for the self-managed super fund (SMSF) sector were not implemented before Parliament rose, according to Peter Burgess, head of p...
The traditional superannuation balanced fund, with its 70/30 allocation to growth and defensive assets, is limiting investors and failing to deliver appropriate investmen...
Small businesses will have recourse to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal as well as other external disputes resolution services under changes announced by the Federa...
Investment in retirement is different and needs to be treated as such, according to former Cooper Review chairman Jeremy Cooper. ...
SPAA argues that this year’s ATO compliance focus makes getting appropriate advice even more essential....
Term deposits may continue to be a popular investment option for Australian investors but according to CANSTAR, the current low interest rate environment is making it dif...
SMSF investors are getting younger, according to new data contained in a study undertaken via Macquarie Bank and the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia....
SMSFs with strategic exposures to shares and property would likely have done better in the 2012/13 financial year, according to the latest assessment from research house ...
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,...