SUPERANNUATION INDUSTRY

Financial planning

Almost 500,000 or 8 per cent of those Australians eligible to determine their own super fund under impending choice of fund legislation will opt to do so according to new...

Editorial

The Association of Superannuation Funds Australia remains the dominant organisation in the superannuation industry....

Editorial

A strong majority of people working in the superannuation industry believe the Government’s co-contribution regime has been a success....

Editorial

Should the Federal Government cut the taxes applying to superannuation? In the strongest response to any question asked in the survey, more than 97 per cent of respondent...

Superannuation

The Australian Taxation Office is making sure that the trustees of self-managed superannuation funds are left in no doubt about their obligations with respect to the owne...

Funds management

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has added to the list of frequently asked questions for superannuation licensing on its website, with the inclusion of ques...

Financial planning

The Federal Opposition has imposed itself on the debate into commission payments in the superannuation industry, using Australian Prudential Regulation Authority data to ...

Financial planning

The superannuation industry has welcomed changes to superannuation included in the Federal Budget but doesn’t believe the Government has gone far enough....

Financial planning

Industry Fund Services has agreed to change its super choice advertising campaigns “Compare the Pair” and “A lifetime of Difference” after the Australian Securities and I...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sent another strong signal that it plans to take a hands-on role to police the superannuation industry in the lea...

Funds management

A senior Australian Prudential Regulation Authority official has said the superannuation industry has over-reacted to a letter warning that recruitment advertising might ...

Financial planning

Fees in the superannuation industry are on their way down, according to data released by the Investment and Financial Services Association....

Financial planning

The Federal Government will move to override state laws in order to give employees on state based employment awards the option to choose their own superannuation fund....

Funds management

The Government’s new superannuation co-contribution regime appears to be gaining real traction, with the latest Australian Prudential Regulation Authority data pointing t...

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