SUPERANNUATION

Life/Risk

Superannuation members’ insurance cover could lapse if there is no money in the account to pay the premiums after being drained for early access, a law firm warns....

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Superannuation

While the superannuation system is not designed to discriminate against women, it exacerbates the inequality, according to KPMG....

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Superannuation

The Retirement Income Review should not neglect looking at the retirement phase and needs to encourage governments to remove super policy from the budget policy cycle, th...

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Financial planning

The Government’s latest exposure draft legislation around the recommendations of the Hayne Royal Commission suggest little has been paid to the lobbying of the major fina...

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Financial planning

Superannuation funds have been ‘engaged’ by the regulators over payments to financial advisers and other third parties....

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Funds management

Investors should embrace that after having benefitted from a relatively benign 2019, the volatility will come back in 2020, according to Schroders....

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Superannuation

AMP Limited has announced investment fee reductions impacting clients across MySuper, choice and cash and term deposit products....

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Superannuation

The superannuation industry is now big enough and old enough to be broken away from the “coddling’ of the industrial relations system, according to the Federal Government...

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Superannuation

Some superannuation funds may have increased their fees simply because they had run down their administration fees to historical lows, according to the Assistant Minister...

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Superannuation

A major industry fund has told a Senate Committee that the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s heatmaps got it wrong because of classification errors....

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Funds management

Industry fund Hostplus has revealed its multi-million bill for investment and management fees....

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Policy & Regulation

Superannuation fund executives and trustees will find themselves the subject to the equivalent of the Bank Executive Accountability Regime under proposals outlined by the...

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Superannuation

Balanced super fund returns will take a hit in the coming years as interest rates hit the bottom of the cycle, according to HLB Mann Judd....

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Superannuation

Underperforming superannuation funds were warned of their situation before the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority released its controversial heatmaps and they hav...

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Superannuation

The Government needs to appoint members to the Fair Work Commission Expert Panel to ensure that only super funds that deliver above a transparent performance benchmark ar...

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