ASFA
Superannuation
Figures from ASFA's Retirement Standard have shown costs for a comfortable retirement and modest retirement vary greatly and are largely affected by costs for leisure goo...
Financial planning
The Government’s meddling with superannuation has earned the ire of a broad cross section of the financial services industry....
Editorial
If, as is being widely speculated, the Federal Government uses the Federal Budget to once again alter the tax setting around Australia’s superannuation system, the ALP wi...
Superannuation
Superannuation funds must ensure they are 'fiduciaries first and marketers second', according to Superannuation Complaints Tribunal chair Jocelyn Furlan....
Financial planning
All financial advice is scaled to some extent, and 'there isn't some form of separation between holistic and scaled', according to ASIC senior executive leader Ged Fitzpa...
Superannuation
Government warned that the costs of tinkering with superannuation could far outweigh the benefits....
Superannuation
The Government has no reasons based on equity to alter the taxation arrangements applying to superannuation, according to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Austr...
Financial planning
ASFA and the Institute of Actuaries join forces to point out a key flaw in ASIC's class order relief on superannuation forecasts....
Superannuation
Consolidation is continuing to impact the broader superannuation industry, according to data contained in an ASFA submission to the Productivity Commission....
Superannuation
ASFA has warned that the Government's inaction on CGT relief will be an impediment to its implementation of Stronger Super....
Superannuation
Written complaints to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal about industry funds increased by 25 per cent last year, while complaints about retail funds decreased slight...
Superannuation
The superannuation guarantee will gradually increase from 9 per cent to 12 per cent over the next seven years, following the passage of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax thr...
Superannuation
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees is advocating the appointment of more women to superannuation fund boards....
Superannuation
Freya Purnell takes a closer look at what life after Stronger Super might bring to the superannuation sector....
Superannuation
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has warned the Government not to tinker with the superannuation tax settings....
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...