SUPERANNUATION TRUSTEES

Financial planning

Former US Vice-President Al Gore has urged Australian superannuation fund trustees to avoid short-termism when assessing investment strategies....

Financial planning

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...

Editorial

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

Financial planning

The amount of superannuation guarantee charge raised by the Australian Tax Office has quadrupled over five years, according to the body’s latest data....

Superannuation

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...

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is ramping up efforts to ensure superannuation trustees comply with the new superannuation licensing regime due to come int...

Financial planning

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...

Superannuation

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...

Editorial

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....

Superannuation

The super splitting law is not as complicated as first thought, Nabil Wahhab says....

People & Products

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...

Funds management

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has warned of concerns it has over the choice of hedge funds as investments....

Financial planning

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...

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