MYSUPER

Financial planning

The deduction of financial advice from member’s superannuation accounts is reasonable, according to actuarial research house, Rice Warner....

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Superannuation

Trustees of the worst performing products have been contacted by the Australian Prudential and Regulation Authority to provide action plans on how they will address ident...

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Superannuation

Australian super funds that invest responsibly tend to outperform their peers since responsible investment is no longer at the perimeter of investment philosophy, a study...

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Superannuation

Twenty under-performing superannuation funds are facing almost immediate heat-map pressure from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and a further 20 will find ...

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Superannuation

The regulator’s new tool needs to be refined to include rigorous benchmarks and Choice products, Industry Super Australia believes....

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Policy & Regulation

APRA’s heatmap will include four investment performance measures that reflect the level of growth or defensive assets and trustees will have no excuse as to why a metric ...

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Superannuation

Super Consumers Australia research has shown the superannuation system put over 176,000 people into a poor performing MySuper products in 2017-18....

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Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has predicted a backlash from super funds in the event it publicly names superannuation funds it deems to be underperformer...

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Life/Risk

The Financial Planning Association has given its backing to the standardisation of terms and definitions with respect to insurance with MySuper products but has caused ag...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has imposed new conditions on AMP’s superannuation businesses including board renewal and removal of conflicts of interest....

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Superannuation

The standardisation of group insurance terms and conditions could help achieve some of the Banking Royal Commission’s recommendations, a leading insurance law firm has sa...

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Financial planning

AMP Limited has released its first quarter cash flows data and revealed the extent to which it is still seeking to recover from its Royal Commission challenges....

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Life/Risk

The Association of Financial Advisers has told Treasury that insurance inside superannuation is of lesser quality than advised insurance, with there being an important tr...

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds have largely ignored the after-tax investing obligations that the Stronger Super reforms embedded into the law, implementation manager Parametric has...

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Superannuation

ASIC is putting the public’s retirement savings at risk and “kicking the can down the road” in deferring disclosure requirements on Choice products, a major industry body...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

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The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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