SUPERANNUATION FUNDS

Policy & Regulation

The cost of further superannuation tax concessions is inaccurate and based on outdated data, according to new ASFA research....

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Financial planning

Investors need to adopt a risk-based approach to portfolio construction amid the current market volatility, according to global fund manager Standard Life Investments....

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Financial planning

ASIC commissioner Peter Kell has defended the regulator's decision to reveal the "headline results" of its recent financial planning shadow shop to the Parliamentary Join...

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Financial planning

APRA has confirmed it is paying legal firms in the order of $3.5 million in contractual arrangements around superannuation fund investigations....

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Financial planning

Short-term reporting and the supposed effect of past performance on the future benefits of a superannuation fund encourage unnecessary knee-jerk reactions from members, a...

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Superannuation

Provisio is arguing that backward-looking superannuation analyses are selling fund members short....

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Financial planning

APRA has confirmed it is paying legal firms in the order of $3.5 million in contractual arrangements around superannuation fund investigations....

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Financial planning

Short-term reporting and the supposed effect of past performance on the future benefits of a superannuation fund encourage unnecessary knee-jerk reactions from members, a...

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Editorial

The Government may be talking the talk with respect to simplifying superannuation, but according to Liz Westover its actions on excess concessional contributions suggest ...

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Financial planning

Financial planning groups have expressed serious concerns about ASIC's proposal to allow transition-to-retirement (TTR) strategies within intra-fund financial advice....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has warned of the hypocrisy of allowing superannuation funds to bundle scaled financial advice costs into an over-arching adminis...

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds are largely unprepared for the onset of the Stronger Super regime, which could see some funds lose over 10 per cent of their members, according to an...

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Financial planning

The cost of a comfortable retirement remains steady according to the latest ASFA data....

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Superannuation

The cost of a comfortable retirement remains steady according to the latest ASFA data....

Policy & Regulation

FOFA's approach to financial advice delivered by superannuation funds could result in conflicting decisions on disputes in different jurisdictions....

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