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Financial planning

It is “highly likely” that global advisory group Brite Advisors misappropriated client funds for its own purposes, the Federal Court has heard, as receivers examine the v...

People & Products

The fintech firm has launched a new online product comparison tool to help advisers compare the fees and features of over 1,000 superannuation, pension and investment fun...

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Superannuation

Defined contribution assets in pension markets have overtaken defined benefit assets for the first time in what could be construed as a vote of confidence in Australia’s ...

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Superannuation

New pension rules, combined with the ATO’s revised treatment of some existing practices surrounding exempt current pension income, have increased the workload of administ...

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Policy & Regulation

Nearly half of the respondents in a survey of over 1,400 investors by Plato Investment Management expect Labor’s proposed franking dividend reform to make them more relia...

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Superannuation

The emergence of the gig economy and other policy factors have resulted in Australia dropping to fourth place on the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index as northern Eur...

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Tools & guides

Rahul Singh explains how to contend with the planning issues stemming from the recent introduction of downsizer contribution rules while still utilising the opportunity t...

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Superannuation

Research from Milliman Inc. has found that a scheme encouraging older Australian couples to downsize their homes will likely help those couples with lower super balances....

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Superannuation

Self-managed superannuation funds in the pension phase are much more likely than their accumulation counterparts to focus on conservative and high-yield investments, acco...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has called for the Australian adoption of a regime which would allow up to $1,000 of super savings to be withdrawn to cover the provisi...

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Superannuation

Changes to the aged pension’s asset test rules may hurt middle-income Australians, according the to SMSF Association....

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Superannuation

The reduction in the household saving rate has led to a drop in the Australian pension system’s sustainability value, according to the Melbourne Mercer Pension Index 2017...

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Funds management

Australians have been seeking help to repair their financial plans for retirement less than two months since the Age Pension asset test changes....

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Financial planning

Pension-phase investors need specialist, high-yield strategies to supplement traditional sources of income, according to Plato....

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Financial planning

Pensioners considering selling the family home in light of the changes to the Age Pension assets test should take into account emotional and practical consequences before...

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My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

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Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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Jasmin Jakupovic

How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...

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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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A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

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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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