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Mike Taylor questions whether a superannuation fund which experiences multiple failures of the proposed Australian Prudential Regulation Authority superannuation fund per...

Superannuation

Administration fees are one of the biggest drains on retirement savings and including them in the test will drive fast improvements to the super savings of over a million...

Superannuation

Questions posed via a Parliamentary Committee may have been aimed at extracting expenditure information from major superannuation funds but they have confirmed just how d...

Life/Risk

A focus on legacy products has become one of the biggest barriers to innovation and the industry needs to be prepared to bear the burden of investment in improving those ...

Policy & Regulation

The corporate regulator has asked the industry to better help the regulators better regulate the industry....

Life/Risk

New data released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has confirmed the value delivered by life/risk advisers while pointing to the continuing problematic n...

Superannuation

Amid strong questioning by Government parliamentarians about how regulators monitor the superannuation sole purpose test, APRA has admitted it has only pursued one such c...

Editorial

Recent legislative efforts in both the financial planning and superannuation spheres point to a Government too ready to leave too much policy detail to the regulators....

Financial planning

The regulator has increased Macquarie Bank’s liquidity and operational risk capital requirements after the firm had “persistent difficulties” in meeting its obligations....

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...

Financial planning

A Parliamentary Committee has heard questioning around whether regulatory costs are now so high that financial advisers will not take on clients with less than $1 million...

Superannuation

Industry funds who have sponsored a major television advertising campaign against the Government’s Your Future, Your Super legislation have been accused of seeking to bul...

Superannuation

The Government’s controversial Your Future, Your Super and it best financial interests duty has placed SMSF trustees at risk, according to the major accounting groups....

Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has made clear how it sees the controversial reversal of the evidential burden of proof playing out around the propos...

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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