SUPERANNUATION

Superannuation

Advice fees levied by superannuation funds are relatively insignificant when compared to administration and investment fees....

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that political ideology will have as much to do with the future of the superannuation guarantee as economic capability....

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Features

The financial consequences of COVID-19 combined with legislative changes mean this will be an unusual tax year for many, Oksana Patron writes....

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Expert Analysis

The changes coming into force with the Your Future, Your Super reforms, writes Joe Brasacchio, present an opportunity for super funds to improve their member engagement....

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Financial planning

Superannuation legislation, product development, and governance and technology will have a huge impact on the personal investments market, according to Rice Warner....

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Superannuation

Superannuation industry associations may be facing significant consolidation as the Government’s new legislation forces to superannuation funds to justify spending member...

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Expert Analysis

Their assets may be increasing but the number of Australia’s superannuation funds is falling and creating ‘mega funds’. Now, they need that scale to work in their favour,...

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Superannuation

The Government has been warned that its new stapling arrangements for superannuation funds may see unscrupulous players hawking underperforming products to new job entran...

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Superannuation

Around 80% of people aged 60 who died between 2014 and 2018 had no superannuation in the period of up to four years before their death, according to research....

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Superannuation

Women under 35 will be disproportionately affected by possible cuts to super, according to a social media campaign from Industry Super Australia....

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Superannuation

AMP Limited has joined the chorus of industry voices pointing to the significant unintended consequences likely to flow from its superannuation legislation and calling or...

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Superannuation

The significant absence of regulatory detail means that the Government should defer its proposed superannuation performance tests until next year, a Parliamentary Committ...

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Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has backed a controversial key element of the Government’s Your Future, Your Super legislation which reverses the legal bur...

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Superannuation

They may have won a victory with respect to women impacted by domestic violence being able to access up to $10,000 of their super, but industry funds want the Government ...

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Policy & Regulation

Superannuation funds did not misuse intra-fund advice with respect to either early release superannuation or insurance, according to the Australian Securities and Investm...

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