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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been urged not to allow the newly-formed Australian Financial Complaints Authority to name and shame relatively l...

Superannuation

Yesterday’s report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) Life Insurance Inquiry reinforces the importance of the Insurance in Superannuation Voluntary Code of Prac...

Outsider

Outsider found himself in Brisbane in mid-March attending that long-running industry funds event – the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds – but it was not the indus...

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Treasury has been told that any industry funding model for ASIC should entail a requirement for the regulator to refund money to licensees....

Superannuation

The superannuation industry is in danger of being strangled by regulatory over-reach, according to the independent chairman of the Association of Superannuation Funds, Mi...

Superannuation

The former Treasurer and now chairman of the Future Fund, Peter Costello is off the mark in suggesting the Future Fund should run superannuation in Australia with many s...

Superannuation

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has cautioned against extending the so-called regulatory sandbox towards superannuation and holistic advice....

Superannuation

Women now account for 38.7 per cent of super account balances, compared to 23 per cent in 1994, according to ASFA....

Features

Mike Taylor writes that while other options may exist, annuitisation has become the preferred foundation for the development of Government approved retirement income prod...

Superannuation

Value for money in superannuation funds is often in the eye of the consumer and should not be second-guessed by the regulators, according to the Association of Superannua...

Life/Risk

ASFA has found that while receiving an insurance payout is not a rare event under insurance costs the government more than $1 billion annually....

Superannuation

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has released a discussion paper outlining the impacts of the ‘gig economy’ for employers’ superannuation....

Superannuation

Superannuation fund trustees should not be subject to the same penalties that apply to directors of Managed Investment Schemes and should be allowed lee-way for ‘honest m...

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that a broad cross-section of the financial services industry has voiced its concerns about a compensation scheme of last resort but few appear to be l...

Funds management

Former ASFA chief executive, Pauline Vamos, has been appointed as CEO of ESG research firm, Regnan....

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