SuperEC, the e-commerce initiative to establish a common set of standards for the electronic processing of superannuation related information across fund managers and sup...
The Financial Services sector would notice little immediate difference if the Australian Labor Party took office after November 10. Why? Because the ALP believes that the...
The Australian Labor Party (ALP) will set up an inquiry into superannuation within 100 days of taking office, Labor party deputy leader Simon Crean announced as part of t...
I set off on my recent trip to the UK smug in the belief that I’d be able to teach the Poms a thing or two, as our industry, as we keep telling each other, is so far ahe...
We’ve been called the lucky country. For a while we aspired to be the smart country. Are we now at risk of becoming the country that never retires?...
The Victorian Government’s call for financial planning services for up to 100,000 public sector super members is the most prominent example of what is destined to become ...
For most Australian workers, superannuation represents one of their two largest assets. With fund balances continuing to grow and the superannuation guarantee rate increa...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained its first injunctions under civil law to stop respondents providing superannuation services until...
FORMER insurance and superannuation agent, Ivan Thomas Merlin of Ballarat, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment, after being charged with larceny and charges rel...
Former MLC insurance and superannuation agent, Ivan Thomas Merlin of Ballarat, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment, after being charged with larceny and charges...
What issue has been the subject of more government enquiries than Sydney's second international airport? The answer has got to be Australia's superannuation system. Howev...
Towers Perrin is entering the outsourcing market, rolling out a package aimed at large corpo-rate superannuation funds....
The superannuation industry has largely underestimated a shift in employer mood, with many employers now fed up with complex and demanding employee benefit structures....
<I>To amend or not to amend That is the question Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of the ATO Or by amendment to quell them To amend, per cha...
Superannuation fund members may be starting to find they are being targeted by their own funds’ affiliated financial planners, if the results of the Top 100 survey are an...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....