SUPERANNUATION

Financial planning

The bank has created a new division that will encompass its wealth platforms, superannuation and retirement products, investments, general and life insurance, and auto fi...

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Financial planning

Lower superannuation fund returns over the long term may see financial planners forced to change their traditional advice model around superannuation, particularly for th...

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Superannuation

The players’ association of the highest level of Australian rules football has extended their 20-year partnership with AMP as the default superannuation provider....

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Features

Self-managed superannuation funds have been weathering the COVID-19 storm, writes Mike Taylor, but should be alert to the price they may be asked to pay as part of the re...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has challenged the sense and workability of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s proposals around time-limited supera...

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Financial planning

A key parliamentary committee has received more evidence about how industry superannuation funds are delivering financial advice and what it cost. ...

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Superannuation

Government Senators are claiming vindication because a senior Treasury official has suggested Industry Super Australia may have used inappropriate data to inflate the imp...

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Funds management

As the current crisis is testing investment ‘truths’, Parametric has claimed gold’s expected negative correlation to equities is worth interrogating with an institutional...

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Superannuation

With the average early release superannuation draw-down standing at slightly over $8,000 and with the load spread across virtually superannuation funds, the industry is h...

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Superannuation

A 25-year-old who accessed $10,000 of their superannuation early could lose $60,000 when they retire, an accounting firm warns. ...

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Policy & Regulation

NSW Liberal Senator and former Financial Services Council policy executive, Andrew Bragg has denied a letter he wrote to constituents on early release superannuation is t...

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Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has announced it has disqualified, suspended or added conditions to the registration for a number of self-managed sup...

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Superannuation

People who are doubtful about whether to seek hardship early release access to their superannuation should ask a trusted financial adviser or tax agent or visit use an AS...

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds will have to file weekly reports with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority on the impacts of the Government’s hardship early release progra...

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Financial planning

New survey data commissioned by the industry funds suggests that up to a million people seeking early access to their superannuation are actually ineligible because they ...

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