DEFAULT FUNDS

Superannuation

AMP Capital will begin transitioning over one million member accounts to its new MySuper lifecycle funds by 2017, and hopes members will more actively engage with their s...

Superannuation

Industry funds may be obliged to appoint a majority of independent directors....

Financial planning

Sinodinos signals changes on FOFA conflicted remuneration based on more specifics....

Superannuation

ISA chief executive David Whiteley welcomes Fair Work Commission’s formula on default fund selection....

Superannuation

Super funds which lose members to SMSFs are unlikely to see them come back....

Financial planning

The Coalition’s Paul Fletcher reaffirms a change in Government will see a change to key elements of FOFA....

Superannuation

New research claims industry funds are unlikely to regain their competitive advantage and warns the default fund regime will not benefit employers....

Superannuation

A Coalition Government will make specific changes to super policy and fixing FOFA. ...

Superannuation

Liberal MP Paul Fletcher has hit out at the Labor Government for the current lack of public confidence in Australia’s superannuation system. . ...

Superannuation

The debate about the selection of default funds in modern awards is most likely a "storm in a teacup", according to Independent Education Union general secretary John Que...

Superannuation

ASFA warns that the process of selecting MySuper products to be default funds needs to be transparent....

Financial planning

Mathias Cormann, David Whiteley and John Brogden to debate MySuper implications in Sydney next week at a joint Money Management/Association of Financial Advisers thought ...

Superannuation

Only some Government concessions around default fund grandfathering may alleviate challenge confronting corporate funds and master trusts....

Editorial

The Government claims it has delivered on the Productivity Commission’s default fund recommendations, but Mike Taylor writes that the devil is in the detail....

Superannuation

Government's default fund legislation passes House of Representatives despite industry and Coalition misgivings....

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