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Financial planning

Major superannuation industry body, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, says that grandfathered planning commissions should be outlawed after a 12-month...

People & Products

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has appointed industry veteran Ken Whitton to the newly created role of professional practice manager....

Superannuation

Research from the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has reconfirmed that there is still a “significant disparity” between retirement incomes for men and wo...

Superannuation

As the world approaches the 10-year anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse, ASFA finds that the diversified nature if super funds have stood members in good stead....

Superannuation

Australian super funds are staying competitive with world-class investment returns, with the average super fund outperforming the Future Fund after adjustments over the l...

Financial planning

Retirement costs increased in this year’s June quarter, with the costs of health services, transport and clothing the main drivers, the Association of Superannuation Fund...

Superannuation

Self-managed superannuation funds should be made to pull their weight in paying for extending SuperStream to the SMSF sector, according to the Association of Superannuati...

Superannuation

First State Super chief executive, Michael Dwyer has received an industry lifetime achievement award....

Superannuation

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has said that Australia has one of the best retirement savings systems in the world, hitting out at “misleading analy...

Superannuation

Superannuation funds are not equipped to deal with judging whether members are seeking to circumvent criminal compensation arrangements and the issue should be left to th...

Superannuation

The key superannuation and financial services stakeholders were neither informed nor consulted about the Government’s proposed one-year amnesty on employer superannuation...

Policy & Regulation

There have been new calls for greater transparency around how the financial services regulators are spending the levies extracted from the industry....

Superannuation

The financial industry may have underestimated the dramatic fall off in retiree spending, according to Milliman’s analysis....

Superannuation

The Government has received a negative financial services industry response to its move to make insurance inside superannuation “opt-in” for those aged under 25 and those...

Superannuation

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has rejected the Grattan Institute’s proposal to dump superannuation guarantee increases, labelling it a “contrived a...

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