SUPERANNUATION FUNDS

Policy & Regulation

SMSF trustees are being encouraged to review their current finance rates after changes to the safe harbour rates benchmark affecting LRBAs. ...

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has warned that super fund members need to ensure they’re not throwing letters from their funds in the bin or marking emails as spam, as that cou...

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Superannuation

Making her first official address as Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Senator Jane Hume has today confirmed that the Morrison Government intends to return to the Pr...

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Financial planning

Superannuation fund members are being encouraged to use the 1 July, 2019 Protecting Your Super deadline as an opportunity to check the performance of their fund....

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Superannuation

Super funds aren’t providing adequate high-quality, ethical and sustainable investment options, according to a survey of advisers, with many so-called ethical options fai...

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Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has chosen AustralianSuper as the default fund for all new employees from 1 July, this year....

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Policy & Regulation

Industry superannuation funds are urging the Australian Financial Complaints Authority to publish data which identifies which particular types of financial services organ...

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Policy & Regulation

Industry funds body, the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has urged that insurance claims handling be subject to the financial advice rules – something whi...

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Policy & Regulation

The financial services industry has delivered the Budget a muted response in circumstances where the Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, had announced most of the Government’s fi...

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Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has declared it will be judging superannuation fund performance on more than just investment returns....

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Policy & Regulation

Industry superannuation funds have welcomed the Royal Commission’s final report, but financial planning groups are concerned about the outcome for their members....

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Superannuation

The Productivity Commission report has missed an opportunity to show how the industry’s pre-tax investment focus might penalise members who retire on after-tax returns....

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Financial planning

Superannuation funds have been placed on notice about the dangers of their telephone consultants drifting into their area of specific personal advice, with a fund ordered...

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Superannuation

Amid market speculation that Catholic Super has found two funds with which to merge, its chief executive, David O’Sullivan, has reaffirmed the fund’s broad merger intenti...

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Superannuation

Industry superannuation funds with their higher allocations to unlisted assets have generated the best calendar year returns for 2018....

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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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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Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...

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Specialist wealth platform provider Mason Stevens has become the latest target of an acquisition as it enters a binding agreement with a leading Sydney-based private equi...

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