SUPERANNUATION TRUSTEES

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

AIST calls for subsidisation of pre-retirement financial advice and tax deductibility for other advice....

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Financial planning

ASFA and AIST backs report to remove the $450 monthly minimum threshold for superannuation guarantee payments, which they say mainly affects the super balances of women....

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Financial planning

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

Financial planning

Australia's two major superannuation industry organisations support concept of a single legislative base for superannuation....

Superannuation

The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has called on the Cooper Review to embrace the not-for-profit template for default funds while pushing SMSFs into APRA...

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Financial planning

With new research revealing that Australian superannuation fund members remained rusted on to their funds despite the GFC, there are calls for more focus on the quality o...

Superannuation

The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) is writing up guidelines that would require all its trustees to do a minimum of 30 hours continuous professiona...

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Financial planning

'Simple advice' may actually erode super balances if members don't understand the limitations of the information they're receiving, according to research by Guardian Fina...

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Financial planning

A round-table of industry chief executives has backed calls for ASIC's intra-fund advice relief to be extended to financial planners....

Financial planning

Financial planners should be able to access the same class relief as superannuation trustees when providing limited, infra-fund advice, according to the chief executive o...

Financial planning

Guardian Financial Planning head Steve Browning claims intra-fund advice should be termed 'informed guidance' rather than 'advice'....

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Financial planning

ASFA has issued a paper to provide superannuation trustees with guidance on valuation and liquidity issues associated with unlisted investments....

Financial planning

Fears the Government would increase the super access age to 67 has caused a decline in voluntary contributions, according to Aviva, while the chief executive of ASFA has ...

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