Former US Vice-President Al Gore has urged Australian superannuation fund trustees to avoid short-termism when assessing investment strategies....
The weight of industry opinion appears to fall on the side of a fee-for-service as a method of adviser remuneration under choice, although some suggest the case has not y...
The Association of Superannuation Funds Australia remains the dominant organisation in the superannuation industry....
The amount of superannuation guarantee charge raised by the Australian Tax Office has quadrupled over five years, according to the body’s latest data....
Fines issued to employers for not paying superannuation to their employees have quadrupled over the past five years, casting a pall over the ability of the super system t...
Mellon Australia has offloaded the product business of its Mellon Human Resources and Investor Solutions division to SMF Funds Management after a 12 month review found ma...
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is ramping up efforts to ensure superannuation trustees comply with the new superannuation licensing regime due to come int...
The Federal Government is undertaking to release within two weeks the draft regulations and operating standards which will apply to the licensing of superannuation truste...
A recent court case decided that a super contribution made just before bankruptcy was protected from the bankruptcy trustee – but, as Peter Bobbin reports, whether or not...
Despite the flurry of interest they generated when introduced to the Australian market, the take up of hedge funds has been slow. Ben Abbott reports....
The super splitting law is not as complicated as first thought, Nabil Wahhab says....
Treasurer Peter Costello has announced the appointment of Dr John Laker as chairman and Ross Jones as deputy chairman of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (A...
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has warned of concerns it has over the choice of hedge funds as investments....
Retail investors are set to gain more exposure to private equity as master trusts increasingly embrace these investments, predicts Marcus Darville, head of Private Equity...
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....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...