YOUR FUTURE YOUR SUPER

Superannuation

The failure of superannuation funds could become a self-fulfilling prophecy if the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority inappropriately applies the proposed superan...

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Superannuation

The Your Future Your Super reforms shift a reference portfolio from “being usefully operational to being detrimentally behavioural”, the Thinking Ahead Institute believes...

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Superannuation

The Government’s Your Future Your Super superannuation performance test needs a collection of multiple metrics rather than a single metric based on a narrow assessment of...

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Superannuation

The superannuation fund performance test needs to test every super product, not just MySuper products, to avoid underperforming funds escape scrutiny, according to a supe...

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Superannuation

While much attention was focused on other elements of its Your Future Your Super legislation, the Government has moved at the same time to impose key obligations with res...

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Superannuation

Industry superannuation funds want the Government’s new Your Future Your Super legislation referred to a Senate Committee claiming it creates an unprecedented over-reach ...

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Superannuation

The Government is being accused of regulatory over-reach via its Your Future Your Super legislation with industry funds, company directors, employers and accounts coalesc...

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Superannuation

The Government needs to address underperformance in the superannuation system before stapling of super accounts begins, according to the Australian Institute of Superannu...

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Superannuation

Almost three-quarters of fund professionals expect to see consolidation of the superannuation industry this year in a bid to reduce costs, according to Calastone....

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Financial planning

Seeking diverse sources of return, managing risk and developing a comparative advantage, will be the three major themes for investors in 2021, according to Willis Towers ...

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that the Government’s Your Future, Your Super Budget announcement might look good at first blush but contains a number of wrinkles which need to be iro...

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds will have to pass an objective performance test to be able to take on new members under new arrangements announced in tonight’s Budget....

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