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Large Australian Securities Exchange listed companies should structure their capital raising offers to maximise access for all investors to a proportionate offer and set ...

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Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has revealed that it has almost seven times more former retail superannuation fund staffers than those who have worked in i...

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Superannuation

Membership fees are the lifeblood of industry superannuation funds and new analysis has revealed they appear to have taken a mighty hit from the Government’s hardship ear...

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Funds management

The firm is reviewing staffing levels, senior management salaries, and directors’ fees as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission was only conducting five investigations relating to industry funds compared to 16 relating to retail funds. ...

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Financial planning

The quality of advice provided by retail funds and industry funds have been found to be similar, according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has acknowledged the likelihood of an advice gap, particularly for lower income earners, but is looking to superannua...

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Superannuation

New industry funds research points to a continuing glaring gap between the fees charged by bank-owned retail superannuation funds and those charged by industry funds....

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has told the Productivity Commission that some retail funds and self-managed superannuation fund promoters have pursued ‘confusion marketing stra...

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Superannuation

As the banks face issues with customer satisfaction so too have their associated super funds, with industry funds having increased their customer satisfaction ratings ove...

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Superannuation

The Federal Government has accommodated the wishes of industry funds by extending the so-called “superannuation outcomes test” to choice products, most of which reside wi...

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Superannuation

The chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, Dr Martin Fahey has argued that there are good reasons for ‘for profit’ superannuation funds ...

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Superannuation

Industry funds have used a Productivity Commission report on investment returns to call for regulatory action against underperforming retail superannuation funds....

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Superannuation

New research has revealed declining satisfaction with retail funds among high account balance holders while industry funds gain the benefits....

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Financial planning

The payment of grandfathered commissions to financial planners is still very much in the gunsights of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation ...

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