SUPERANNUATION

Expert Analysis

This is the first reporting period that firms will have to comply with the Modern Slavery Act, writes Liana Brover and Timothy Stamp, so how can businesses ensure they ar...

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Financial planning

Superannuation funds need the ability to deliver a wider range of financial advice to members, according to a roundtable....

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Superannuation

Superannuation should be placed under an independent authority such as the Reserve Bank rather have it subjected to political game-playing, according to a roundtable of s...

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Financial planning

Major superannuation group, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has backed the increased use of advisers in helping people not only deal with retirement ...

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Life/Risk

Some members would see an increase in premiums with an average increase of 30% while others would have significant reductions....

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Superannuation

Industry superannuation funds are calling on the Government to help low income earners recoup their losses from taking hardship early access superannuation by making a on...

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Superannuation

Leading actuarial research house, Rice Warner, has called for delaying the next superannuation guarantee rise rather than abandoning it altogether. ...

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Superannuation

Any further delay in increasing the superannuation guarantee will not translate to higher wages because employers have no intention of paying them, according to the Austr...

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Superannuation

There are a range of self-interest groups “obsessed with dismantling superannuation on ideological grounds” that could shrink the economy, according to the Association of...

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Superannuation

The proposal for the early release of superannuation to address housing affordability by the Master Builders does nothing to address the supply side constraints at the he...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has endorsed the ability of superannuation funds to obtain advice services from financial planning firms underpinned ...

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Superannuation

The Government’s changes to insurance inside superannuation have been responsible for driving premium increases, not the superannuation funds themselves, according to the...

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Superannuation

A new report from the Actuaries Institute has confirmed the degree of disadvantage which will be endured by those under 35 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and measur...

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Superannuation

Ditching the superannuation guarantee scheme would be “saddling the next generation with a whopping pension bill”, according to a super body....

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Funds management

The Australian Tax Office has confirmed that a part disposal of a home can be claimed as downsizer contributions and this has been extended to DomaCom’s senior equity rel...

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