SUPERANNUATION

Expert Analysis

Superannuation and social security are among themes where advisers are querying the most as they look to upskill their knowledge in a complex advice world, Craig Day writ...

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Expert Analysis

The principles of mutual companies are still evident in our superannuation system, writes Andrew Howard, but more can be done to improve life insurance within super....

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Outsider

The superannuation industry is going through a period of consolidation via mergers and Outsider believes he can use some real-life experience to help the process....

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Superannuation

The legislation will improve visibility of superannuation assets in family law proceedings, allowing the Australian Taxation Office to release super information in family...

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Financial planning

While the average female retirement has come down slightly in the past two years, there are still steps that can be taken by the Government to help close the 28% gender s...

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Superannuation

Its year-long review has examined the role of the family home in retirement income provision, how advice results in better use of superannuation savings, and the Age Pens...

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Policy & Regulation

The Government has included changes to the way portfolio holdings should be organised and what format they should be displayed in. ...

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Superannuation

There has been a growing interest in engagement with superannuation along with positive attitudes towards the super guarantee increase and higher contribution caps, among...

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Superannuation

Super funds should look at allocate between 10% to 12% to private capital but high fees mean this is unlikely to come to pass, according to the Australian Investment Coun...

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Superannuation

If there is a post on a superannuation fund’s social media platform from a member about withdrawing communication consent, then the fund must take steps to ascertain the ...

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Superannuation

There is a “seismic shift” among industry super funds to focus on carbon reporting, according to Research Affiliates, as Australia wakes up to it lagging behind the rest ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has announced a collaborative work with members across the financial services industry to design templates to help enable the implementatio...

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Superannuation

The corporate and prudential regulators have put superannuation trustees on notice that they can expect a further follow up on their advice fee practices and that they ex...

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Financial planning

Tax benefits make investment companies a better option to family trusts as they offer the best tax benefits to clients, apart from superannuation, according to HLB Mann J...

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People & Products

Equip Super and Catholic Super’s director and chair, Andrew Fairley, will step down at the end of the month and has called on trustees to put members’ interests ahead of ...

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