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Financial planning

The corporate watchdog’s guidance on the scope of civil penalty provisions and what may amount to trivial breaches does not provide sufficient objectivity to assist licen...

Superannuation

While the Financial Services Council has welcomed the Senate passage of the Your Future, Your Super bill, Industry Super Australia and the Australian Institute of Superan...

Superannuation

Long-awaited reforms to stop abusive partners hiding super assets in family law cases has been welcomed by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees, Women’s Le...

Features

The Government has succeeded in using the Federal Budget to tidy up some longstanding superannuation policy loose-ends with some usually noisy backbenchers remaining comp...

Superannuation

Some of the worst-performing super products have been carved out of the performance test putting consumers at risk of being stapled to a dud fund, according to the Austra...

Superannuation

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

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Financial planning

Industry funds have urged an extension of intra-fund advice to cover retirement adequacy scenarios and spouse super....

Superannuation

Forcing workers to use their retirement savings to fund their own pay rise should not be a way to deal with low wage growth, the Australian Institute of Superannuation Tr...

Superannuation

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

Superannuation

The COVID-19 early release superannuation scheme has forced people to choose between poverty now or poverty in retirement, the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trus...

Superannuation

Poorly-performing superannuation funds need to be identified and weeded out before the Government embarks on stapling....

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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