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Financial planning

ISA claims ASIC’s fee disclosure requirement update leaves consumers in the dark on fees charged by ‘for-profit’ superannuation funds run by banks. ...

Superannuation

Retirement plans of millions of Australians could be negatively impacted by proposed reforms of super fund governance, the ISA claims....

Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has taken another look at the ISA’s compare the pair advertising campaign amid Senate suggestions it does not compare...

Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has rebuffed industry fund arguments on super fund governance, arguing independent directors are both desirable and benefic...

Policy & Regulation

The Government will consider further extending the existing FOFA provisions if reforms are not found to better align firm and consumer interests by 2018....

Superannuation

Industry Super Australia wheels out its chairman, former NSW Liberal leader, Peter Collins, to urge the new Prime Minister to review and reset super fund governance chang...

Superannuation

As the Parliament moves to consider super fund governance changes, Industry Super Australia has released research claiming the big banks are taking a third of all super f...

Financial planning

Advisers concerns over the impact the ‘three year responsibility period’ will have on their businesses must be a priority for the new Prime Minister....

Financial planning

Industry Super Australia has called for general advice to be better defined instead of relabelled in a late submission to the Inquiry into the Scrutiny of Financial Advic...

Superannuation

ISA will continue to push back against banks moving into the default super fund space with an advertising campaign urging employers to not pick banks for default funds....

Superannuation

APRA has stated it sees no sizeable problems around the funding of Industry Super Australia and its lobbying efforts against Government Budget measures....

Financial planning

Industry Super Australia has told the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority that retail super funds are disguising investment costs via the use of platforms....

Financial planning

AIST and Women in Super have urged the Government to prioritise tax reform of superannuation as it is a key factor behind the gender gap in retirement savings....

Financial planning

Industry Super Australia has warned that super fund governance changes carry with them the risk of contagion from importing finance sector norms....

Superannuation

The productivity commission’s suggestion of lifting the super preservation age has met with mixed reactions from peak industry bodies....

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

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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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