SUPERANNUATION INDUSTRY

Financial planning

AIST warns against the 'dumbing down' of existing balanced super funds and a potential worsening of the underinsurance problem; ASFA calls for legislative support to impr...

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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

Small employers will run fewer risks of incurring penalties on superannuation guarantee payments by utilising the Government’s new super clearing house....

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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Policy & Regulation

Research commissioned by ASFA sends a strong warning to the Federal Government not to dip further into the superannuation pool, while also pointing to a lack of confidenc...

Financial planning

Recent events have served to significantly undermine Australians’ confidence in super as a savings vehicle, and the industry has its work cut out to restore that faith....

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Financial planning

BT Financial Group has called on the Cooper Review to make super portability an easier exercise for consumers....

Financial planning

Big industry fund, Unisuper, wants trustees granted safe harbour from prosecution based on member investment decisions....

Editorial

Concessions and how people should access and pay for advice have emerged as the key issues in relation to superannuation and financial services reform....

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Editorial

Chris Bowen has sent a clear message that the Government will be cherry-picking the recommendations of the Henry Tax Review....

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Financial planning

The IFSA submission to the Cooper Review has argued that advice should be expressly recognised in superannuation legislation....

Editorial

The global financial crisis has dampened Australians’ ardour for lump sum superannuation payouts, with the result that a rash of new pension products are coming to market...

Policy & Regulation

Advisers need to rethink long-term strategies of holding TPD super cover....

Financial planning

Transferring commercial property into a self-managed superannuation fund may lead to significant taxation benefits....

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