SUPERANNUATION FUNDS

Financial planning

The first preliminary report of the Cooper Review has pointed to a new architecture for the superannuation industry based on members rather than products, with trustees a...

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Financial planning

The challenges of 2009 have demonstrated the underlying strength of the super industry, writes Pauline Vamos....

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Financial planning

India is set to benefit from a shift in Australian superannuation fund attitudes to investing in Asia, according to research conducted by the University of New South Wale...

Editorial

It is time for Industry Super Network's David Whiteley to put down the verbal cudgels and for his industry funds’ backers to cease their consequent expenditure of members...

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Financial planning

Concerns about regulatory risk will see people relying more on voluntary savings than superannuation....

Financial planning

Financial planners and superannuation fund members may soon be able to compare funds based on a simple scale determined by their relative exposure to risk....

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Financial planning

Australian superannuation funds could have been buffered from the onslaught of the global financial crisis if they had invested more in Australian agriculture, according ...

Financial planning

ASFA and AIST backs report to remove the $450 monthly minimum threshold for superannuation guarantee payments, which they say mainly affects the super balances of women....

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Financial planning

Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief Pauline Vamos is concerned that financial planners aren't responding to different retirement phases with dif...

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Editorial

Alena Miles considers what lies ahead in super and retirement income streams, particularly in light of three major Government policy reviews....

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Financial planning

Super funds are missing out on investment opportunities due to risk aversion following the global financial crisis....

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Financial planning

Cooper Review asked to consider standardisation of fee disclosure across superannuation funds....

Editorial

Trustees should be free to make investment decisions without regulatory influences that create artificial markets for certain classes, writes Pauline Vamos....

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Superannuation

The financial services industry has been called upon to step up to its social obligations when dealing with trustees of self-managed superannuation funds....

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Financial planning

Global financial crisis has acted to make some socially responsible investment (SRI) funds less attractive to retail investors. ...

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