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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 Australian Council of Trade Unions believes the Government’s superannuation exposure draft legislation is an ‘attack’ on working people and their retirement savings. ...

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Superannuation

At the same time as the Government is due to release the report of the Retirement Income Review the trade union movement has released its own report claiming that failing...

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Superannuation

Super increases shouldn’t used as a political football and increases in the SG are going to be essential in recovering superannuation balances post-COVID-19....

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Superannuation

The Australian Council of Trade Unions has managed to span the political spectrum in organising an “emergency summit” on the future of the superannuation guarantee....

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Financial planning

The Australian Council of Trade Unions has condemned the Government’s proposed changes to self-managed superannuation funds structures as an estate planning vehicle and c...

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Superannuation

Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services, and Financial Technology, Jane Hume needs to decide whether she will convince her colleagues to resist the “sel...

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Superannuation

Any further delay in increasing the superannuation guarantee will not translate to higher wages because employers have no intention of paying them, according to the Austr...

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Superannuation

The Government has a hatred of superannuation and is encouraging people to take early access to their superannuation simply to protect the Budget bottom line, according t...

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Life/Risk

There would need to be an alignment of the various state and territory workers’ compensation jurisdictions to enable life insurers to participate in getting injured worke...

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Life/Risk

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has suggested there is scope for allowing life insurers to assist in getting workers back to work sooner....

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Life/Risk

The Australian Council of Trade Unions has criticised calls for private life insurers to be allowed a greater role in worker rehabilitation claiming it is part of a Finan...

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that, love him or hate him, it is hard to argue that departing Industry Super Australia chief executive, David Whiteley, did not achieve the objectives...

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