DEFAULT FUNDS

Superannuation

The Productivity Commission has signalled it won’t be traversing the default funds issue in its review of the Australian Workplace Relations Framework....

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Financial planning

FSI urges opening up default funds to competition along with removing the barriers to post-retirement product development...

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Superannuation

Industry fund chief executive wants banks and AMP to abide by a best interest duty when providing super via employers....

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Superannuation

FSC claims industry funds are engaging in protectionsit practices by exploiting loop-holes in choice of fund legislation to deny open access to default funds under the ne...

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Superannuation

Concerns about the fees being charged on default superannuation funds are prompting calls for the final transition date for savings to be moved to a MySuper account to be...

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Superannuation

Financial Services Council chief executive, John Brogden, has labelled the existing default super regime a “racket” which is standing in the way of lower super fees....

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Superannuation

Industry fund lobbyists have had a go at the big banks, saying only $13 billion of savings in bank-owned funds have moved into MySuper....

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Superannuation

The ISA claims vertical integration and FOFA changes pose risks to fair default fund regime....

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Financial planning

The Financial Systems Inquiry interim report has pointed to high super fees and has canvassed auctions for obtaining default fund status....

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Superannuation

A major mining group has called on the Abbott Government to remove superannuation as an industrial award issue....

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Superannuation

The Fair Work Commission has formally acknowledged that its default fund selection process has been suspended....

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Financial planning

The FSC has won its Federal Court case challenging the make-up of the FWC’s expert superannuation panel....

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Superannuation

Super funds look at Stronger Super and MySuper reforms either as a chance for compliance or innovation, Mercer said....

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Policy & Regulation

Lawyers representing the Financial Services Council have asked the FWC president, Justice Iain Ross, to clarify his intentions on the expert panel selecting default funds...

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Policy & Regulation

The controversial Federal Court dispute between the Financial Services Council (FSC) and the Fair Work Commission (FWC) may be defused by a letter from FWC president, Jus...

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