SUPERANNUATION

Superannuation

The SMSF Association is selling the message that you don’t need $1 million to set up a self-managed superannuation fund but regulatory uncertainty does represent a major ...

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Expert Analysis

We entrust a significant portion of our savings into the superannuation system yet, as Hannah Wootton writes, the amount of information we get from funds in exchange is a...

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Outsider

Outsider spent a reasonable portion of his working life strolling the corridors of the Federal Parliament and thus, he thinks he knows a thing or two about how the system...

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Financial planning

Big industry fund, AustralianSuper has called for an end to grandfathering and for a legal obligation on superannuation funds to provide members with an annual report of ...

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Superannuation

The AIST has welcomed an announcement from the Federal Opposition that it will move to amend key measures in the insurance in superannuation package now before Parliament...

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Superannuation

The chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, Dr Martin Fahey has argued that there are good reasons for ‘for profit’ superannuation funds ...

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Superannuation

The Government has agreed to make an exception of young and low balance superannuation fund members working in high-risk occupations from its opt-in legislation....

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Superannuation

The Financial Services Council has used Productivity Commission analysis and data to suggest that there is a very significant underperformance problem for not-for-profit ...

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Superannuation

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has warned that the Labor Party’s proposal to abolish refundable franking credits needs to take into account the bedd...

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Superannuation

The Federal Senate will this week consider the controversial amendment to the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act first proposed by the then-Treasurer Scott Morriso...

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Superannuation

The Grattan Institute’s recommendation that more rental housing assistance be provided is not enough to combat the housing strain faced by retirees, the Australian Instit...

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Financial planning

Industry funds body, Industry Fund Services has admitted to the Royal Commission that it, too, had to deal with its planners receiving conflicted remuneration including g...

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Superannuation

The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has made clear the Government will opt for retirement income certainty rather than the superannuation guarantee recommendations of ...

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Superannuation

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has joined the dissent against the Grattan Institute’s retirement report, labelling it “an unprecedented attack on th...

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Superannuation

There’s a new kid on the superannuation block with Mercer and Kogan.com announcing this morning that they will together launch a new “no frills, ultra-low fee” super fund...

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