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...
The challenges of 2009 have demonstrated the underlying strength of the super industry, writes Pauline Vamos....
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...
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...
Concerns about regulatory risk will see people relying more on voluntary savings than superannuation....
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....
Australian superannuation funds could have been buffered from the onslaught of the global financial crisis if they had invested more in Australian agriculture, according ...
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....
Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief Pauline Vamos is concerned that financial planners aren't responding to different retirement phases with dif...
Alena Miles considers what lies ahead in super and retirement income streams, particularly in light of three major Government policy reviews....
Super funds are missing out on investment opportunities due to risk aversion following the global financial crisis....
Cooper Review asked to consider standardisation of fee disclosure across superannuation funds....
Trustees should be free to make investment decisions without regulatory influences that create artificial markets for certain classes, writes Pauline Vamos....
The financial services industry has been called upon to step up to its social obligations when dealing with trustees of self-managed superannuation funds....
Global financial crisis has acted to make some socially responsible investment (SRI) funds less attractive to retail investors. ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
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....