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APRA executive Keith Chapman reveals some super funds are misrepresenting liquidity information to avoid paying benefits to members....
Financial planning
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's superannuation tables are not reflective of many superannuants' experiences, nor a meaningful indicator of how super fund...
Financial planning
Fund performance data released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority offers consumers very limited assistance in checking the relative performance of super fu...
Financial planning
A number of failures of governance at a director and business level contributed to the global financial crisis, offering a number of lessons for the future, according to ...
Financial planning
Financial planning strategy frameworks in Australia do not appropriately communicate risk, or account for full value through the wealth management lifecycle, according to...
Editorial
In light of recent events, it is timely to reflect on who the Investment and Financial Services Association is actually representing....
Superannuation
Almost 20 per cent of Australians said the GFC could see them continue to work for an extra six years, while 33 per cent may continue to work up to an additional four yea...
Superannuation
Government bonds, infrastructure bonds and CPI-linked bonds can underpin a long-term retirement product....
Life/Risk
One of the traditional strongholds of financial planners, insurance sales, may be under threat, with the intra-fund advice regime giving superannuation funds the power to...
Financial planning
The industry needs to work harder at managing and explaining risk for super members, while planners must determine what clients hope to achieve through their investments....
Editorial
Dispensations granted to superannuation funds with respect to intra-fund advice are what many had hoped for but they carry the risk of reputational damage if things go wr...
Financial planning
Financial planners should be able to access the same class relief as superannuation trustees when providing limited, infra-fund advice, according to the chief executive o...
Financial planning
Centro group announces significant downward revaluations....
Financial planning
The degree to which superannuation funds comply with the regulatory constraints surrounding the new intra-fund advice regime will rely on how closely they are watched by ...
Financial planning
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chief executive, Pauline Vamos, has sought to clarify and defend her organisation's position on intra-fund advice....
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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....