SUPER FUNDS

Financial planning

Comparing the benefits of various superannuation funds will be made simpler for advisers following the launch of a research resource from Mercer Investment Consulting....

Financial planning

Super choice was introduced in July 2005 to allow Australian’s to make their own decisions about how they want to invest for their retirement. Few argued against the legi...

Financial planning

The superannuation industry is embracing financial planning as an integral offering for members, but has strongly rejected a commission-based fee model....

Financial planning

Banning exit fees on super funds and restricting statements of advice to less than four pages will form part of Labor’s new financial services policy platform to be relea...

Financial planning

Superannuation funds should take action within 10 working days of a customer requesting payment or additional information, according to Association of Superannuation Fund...

Financial planning

Poor returns from a jittery Australian share market and mixed results on the international front have wiped more than 2 per cent off the value of superannuation funds in ...

Funds management

Equipping researchers and investment committee members from dealer groups, platforms, super funds and research houses with the knowledge and insight required to understan...

Financial planning

Up to 10 per cent of Australians will change super funds by June 30, 2006 according to super clearing house provider InvestmentLink....

Superannuation

SuperRatingsHeron AdvisorMercer <IS> Super serviceRainmaker MarketplaceChant West’s Personal Super Research...

Superannuation

Advisers are drowning in choice – that is, a growing choice of information and new research available to help them get the requisite levels of documentation they now requ...

Editorial

Trustee, funds management and financial planning company Trust Company of Australia has posted an after tax profit for the first six months ended August 31, 2005, of $20....

Financial planning

A new private equity firm created by three breakaway Macquarie Bank staff, Next Capital, has launched onto the alternative assets scene with a $265 million private equity...

Financial planning

Hopes that the introduction of choice of fund would boost business for financial advisers appear to have been dashed, with a new survey showing the majority of planners w...

Financial planning

Mercer Human Resources Consulting has reopened the debate about allowing fund members to access their superannuation early to help pay for mortgages and other purchases....

Financial planning

A troupe of public sector and industry superannuation funds have demanded Australia’s biggest companies more clearly disclose how they make sure their directors do not fu...

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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...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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