SUPERANNUATION INDUSTRY

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has accepted an enforceable undertaking from former Trio Capital Limited director David O'Bryen....

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Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's (APRA's) handling of superannuation funds needs to be just as transparent as its handling of the major banks, according t...

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Financial planning

ISN chief executive David Whiteley declines to tell the AFA conference what industry fund advertising is actually costing....

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Editorial

The industry superannuation funds advertising campaign reached such a level in September and early October that it prompted the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and t...

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Superannuation

The Australian Taxation Office's (ATO's) recent draft ruling on limited recourse borrowing arrangements has clarified its approach according to SPAA national technical di...

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Editorial

The sole purpose test has governed the operations of Australian superannuation funds for nearly two decades but, as Mike Taylor reports, it may require some reinterpretat...

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Editorial

The Government has finally delivered the details of its Stronger Super package but, as Mike Taylor writes, those hoping for certainty may be waiting a very long time....

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Editorial

Amid all the discussion around the recent release of the Government’s Stonger Super package, there existed the strong assumption that low-cost, low-fee MySuper products w...

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Superannuation

Multiple superannuation fund directorships and default funds under modern awards seen as key omissions from Stronger Super....

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Superannuation

With the Government expected to release its Stronger Super formula, it has been urged to thereafter stop tinkering with super policy....

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Financial planning

Within days of the Government's expected release of its Stronger Super proposals it has been warned it risks creating an industry fund monopoly....

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Editorial

The Government’s Stronger Super policy package is positioned to deliver on MySuper and the other Cooper Review reforms but, as Mike Taylor reports, there remains consider...

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Superannuation

Core elements of the financial planning industry are calling for greater regulatory scrutiny of the contractual arrangements underpinning the multimillion dollar group in...

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Superannuation

The superannuation industry has posted an overall rate of return of -0.9 per cent for the June 2011 quarter, following three successive quarters of positive returns, acco...

Superannuation

SMSF trustees have been finding property investment increasingly appealing in recent months. Dan Butler and Nathan Papson list a number of practical considerations which ...

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