ASSOCIATION OF SUPERANNUATION FUNDS
Policy & Regulation
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has used its pre-budget submission for the next financial year to again call for the complete abolishment of the 15 p...
Financial planning
Australian couples will now be able to split their superannuation contributions after January 1, 2006, with legislation ratifying the move passed by the Senate....
Financial planning
ASFA has expressed concern that the Federal Government's new industrial relations laws will not enshrine superannuation as a key employment condition beyond June 30, 2008...
Financial planning
Three-quarters of Australians would prefer the superannuation contributions tax to be scrapped rather than a tax cut, and only 7 per cent of the public has changed supera...
Financial planning
The establishment of the Commonwealth’s Future Fund, along with the ongoing implementation of the Federal Government’s Retirement Incomes Policy, has earned Federal Treas...
Financial planning
The unprecedented influence that the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA’s) chief executive Kerrie Kelly has had over the financial planning profession in the last 12 m...
Financial planning
Assistant Treasurer Mal Brough has flagged his intention to improve fee disclosure requirements by superannuation funds and simplify how retirement savings are taxed....
Financial planning
Despite the introduction of choice legislation and the abolishment of the hugely unpopular superannuation surcharge, the Australian superannuation industry is still far f...
Financial planning
More than a million consumers will be better off and an indelible administration load has been lifted from the superannuation industry after Treasurer Peter Costello’s su...
Financial planning
Almost 500,000 or 8 per cent of those Australians eligible to determine their own super fund under impending choice of fund legislation will opt to do so according to new...
Financial planning
Following the Senate’s rejection of the Bill to abolish the superannuation surcharge on Wednesday, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has called for sup...
Financial planning
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has called for smooth passage of the Bill to abolish the unpopular superannuation surcharge, which was introdu...
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