INDUSTRY FUNDS
Superannuation
The latest Chant West data has confirmed a flat start to the new financial year for the median growth fund....
Superannuation
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has revealed what it asked and how the industry superannuation funds justified the money they spent on the latest ‘fox in t...
Superannuation
The Financial Planning Association has warned the Government of serious unintended consequences associated with the implementation of its First Home Super Saver Scheme....
Superannuation
Government risks advantaging wealthy retirees at expense of others with its Budget home down-sizing measure warns industry funds....
Superannuation
If industry funds are donating or otherwise transmitting money to trade unions, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission says it won’t necessarily know....
Superannuation
A former industry fund chief executive has questioned their use of the “not-for-profit” mantra as being something more suited to charities....
Superannuation
The industry funds believe fund trustees know best what will suit their members on Comprehensive Income Products in Retirement with safe harbour arrangements being needed...
Funds management
Industry Super Australia has declared an interest in agriculture investment in the right circumstances and with the right changes being made....
Superannuation
Industry funds and the SMSF Association are in heated disagreement over the need to ban self-managed superannuation fund access to limited recourse borrowing arrangements...
Superannuation
Independent data highlights chronic underperformance of bank-owned super funds, according to Industry Super Australia....
Features
An increasing number of Australians are looking to pursue ethical investments outside of superannuation but, as Mike Taylor reports, there is a concern that some planners...
Superannuation
Industry funds need to make sure they are not tainted by the scandals which have surrounded the banks, according to Australian Institute of Trustees acting chief executiv...
Life/Risk
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees wants all commissions and other forms of conflicted remuneration for the sale of retail life policies banned....
Superannuation
One of Australia’s smaller industry superannuation funds has questioned the benefits of mergers and scale and argued that funds should prove their efficiency....
Policy & Regulation
The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services has taken the industry funds to task over their own governance review, claiming it has fallen into a black hole....
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