SUPERANNUATION INDUSTRY

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will be undertaking a significant review of AMP’s proposal to de-merge its operations in Australia and the UK prior ...

Financial planning

Australia’s peak industry body for the superannuation industry, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), has warned the Government that any increased ...

Funds management

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has disqualified two former directors of Commercial Nominees of Australia (CNAL) from acting as responsible officers...

Financial planning

The total value of Australia’s superannuation assets has declined for the second consecutive quarter, as the ongoing uncertainty in the world’s investment markets continu...

Financial planning

Australia’s major industry associations have welcomed the Government’s push to give regulators sweeping new powers to police the $520 billion superannuation industry with...

Accounting

An accountant and his daughter were sentenced to jail by the County Court of Victoria after being found guilty of intending to permanently deprive their clients of more t...

Financial planning

The Federal Government has released a paper outlining the implementation for its policy on the portability of superannuation but has come under immediate criticism from t...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has renewed its push for the introduction of member choice in superannuation, calling for a return to greater urgency in the deba...

Superannuation

The average level of superannuation savings will not provide retirement incomes for retirees, and the statutory contributions are not much help for baby boomers either....

Financial planning

Small superannuation funds that lost money as a result of the collapse of the Commercial Nominees of Australia (CNA) trustee group will have up to 90 per cent of the loss...

Superannuation

Most financial planners could be excused for thinking that things have gone a little quiet in the world of superannuation....

Superannuation

Superannuation is a hot topic in the industry at the moment for a few reasons....

Financial planning

Fees in retail superannuation funds continue to be almost double that of other sectors of the superannuation industry despite remaining static since 1999, according to a ...

Financial planning

The Strategist Group is looking to immediately enlist another 30 financial planning or accounting groups to its network of self-managed super fund (SMSF) specialists, the...

Financial planning

Is this the new minister for financial services? Not quite, but senator Helen Coonan, appointed minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer after the Prime Minister scra...

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