An industry super fund representing the timber trade says it will use the CBA’s AGM to oppose the re-election of two CBA board members who served during the advice scanda...
Wealth management platform, XPLAN, and cloud SMSF software, Class Super, have been integrated in an attempt to bridge the gap between planners and accountants. ...
APRA-regulated fund members demand advice and good communication if super funds want to retain them, but most are not ready to pay for this advice. ...
Industry fund VicSuper has broken new ground by partnering with Challengers to produce an annuities offer to members....
New white paper warns that member direct strategies may backfire on industry funds seeking to halt leakage of members to SMSFs....
Super funds need to invest in advice structures, engagement, and member servicing to retain members but many are struggling to have clear strategies, SuperRatings said....
People aged between 35 and 49 do not place value in going to a financial advisor, with only 15 per cent having done so....
There is some confusion and buck passing between trustees and advisers when it comes to compliance responsibility of a SMSF....
AMP has announced it has agreed to acquire a 19.99 per cent stake in China’s largest pension company China Life Pension Company....
Mercer research showed more than half of Australians will have less money than required to meet their desired retirement lifestyle. ...
Deferred lifetime annuities would cost the Federal Government nothing to introduce and would begin to have an immediate impact on retirement income savings, according to ...
SMSF retirees drawing more than the ‘comfortable’ income level should not become over-confident, a research paper warned....
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...