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Superannuation

ASFA warns that narrow rules around three working day rollovers could have negative impacts....

Superannuation

Australia should emulate France in introducing a "floating retirement age", according to the Combined Superannuants and Pensioners Association. ...

Superannuation

ASFA calls for community involvement in survey to gather views on the future of Australia’s super system....

Editorial

The financial services industry’s approach to post-retirement has long been regarded as stale. Critics’ voices have become ever louder and, as Janine Mace reports, the in...

Superannuation

Expert panel advocates finding a concessional caps’ sweet spot and limiting lump sums....

Life/Risk

Funds receiving compulsory lost super transfers via the ATO should be required to deliver on insurance, says ASFA....

Superannuation

The high level of unknowns resulting from rapidly completed super legislation will require the regulators to be tolerant....

Superannuation

ASFA has called for an independent review of large SuperStream costs....

Financial planning

ASFA's Pauline Vamos argues the increasing complexity involved in dealing with post-retirement issues justifies a specialist qualification for planners. ...

Financial planning

An Auditor-General’s report is unlikely to dampen financial services industry grumbling about how AUSTRAC is funded....

Superannuation

Following SuperRatings criticism of the FSC/ASFA standard risk measure yesterday, ASFA has said it will incorporate the points made in a review of the SRM later this year...

Superannuation

Retirees will have to wear their share of the burden of declining real incomes and increased budgetary pressures, John Daley from the Grattan Institute told an ASFA lunch...

Superannuation

A new report commissioned by ASFA found super funds will need to adapt their business models to respond to the increasing number of Aussies moving into retirement....

Financial planning

The Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Senator Mathias Cormann, is keynote at an upcoming Super Review thought leadership breakfast....

Superannuation

An ASFA submission has confirmed the degree to which super funds are evolving to meet the retail market....

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