INDUSTRY SUPERANNUATION FUNDS

Financial planning

Industry funds are urging more clarity from the regulators on what can be delivered via limited and intrafund advice while canvassing the ability to bill members in three...

Superannuation

Government backbenchers have pointed to evidence that AustralianSuper chief executive, Ian Silk, spoke to a critic of the Victorian Government COVID-19 lockdown as eviden...

Financial planning

Industry superannuation funds believe they are on safe ground in providing both scaled advice and intrafund advice citing the authority of the Australian Securities and I...

Funds management

First it was industry superannuation funds announcing downward revaluations of their unlisted assets, now major property funds started announcing similar processes....

Policy & Regulation

The chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, James Shipton has declared the regulator treats industry and retail funds equally....

Superannuation

Industry superannuation funds have welcomed an announcement by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority that it will begin collecting data on choice superannuation ...

Superannuation

The two major industry superannuation fund groups have urged the Government to rule out tampering with or delaying the scheduled increases in the superannuation guarantee...

Financial planning

The Andrews Government has announced a $250 million Victorian Business Growth Fund for small and medium enterprises, with two major industry super funds offering their su...

Superannuation

The Coalition Government has called on the Senate to pass its Protecting Your Super Package and Member Outcomes legislation. ...

Superannuation

Members are more satisfied with industry superannuation funds than with their retail counterparts, with satisfaction with self-managed superannuation funds highest of all...

People & Products

Industry fund, First Super has appointed Aboriginal elder, Tim Chatfield as an independent director on its board, effective from 22 September....

People & Products

legalsuper has added Challenger's lifetime and fixed term annuities to its retirement products menu....

People & Products

Former Future Fund boss, Mark Burgess has joined the HESTA board and will head the new investment committee....

Financial planning

A financial planning practice within Charter Financial Planning has paid $10,200 penalty after ASIC found it made misleading representations in an article on its website....

Funds management

APRA deputy chairman, Ian Laughlin, has identified the market power of industry funds and how it has influenced the group life market. ...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

5 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months 1 week ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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