SUPER FUND

Editorial

In the results of our Super Review Top Super Funds Survey one thing is clear: super fund numbers are rapidly shrinking. Mike Taylor reports...

Financial planning

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Trustees of superannuation funds have been given an extra year by the corporate regulator to provide Product Disclosure Statements to members that are meant to detail dif...

Financial planning

With the full privatisation of Telstra viewed as likely to compromise the ability of the company’s employees to remain members of the public sector CSS super fund, their ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission, for the first time ever, has released super fund performance data aimed at providing members with reasonable expecta...

Financial planning

The Federal Government has topped up the retirement savings of low to middle income earners by $244 million in the 19 months since the introduction of the superannuation ...

Financial planning

BT Financial Group has developed a new software program that channels superannuation contributions to various funds in an attempt to lighten the administrative load that ...

Financial planning

Tribeca’s Jason Menzies answers your questions in-depth....

Life/Risk

Almost half of Australians believe life insurance is a “waste of money” according to a new Commonwealth Bank survey that found less than one in three adults have a person...

Financial planning

It’s been another busy week for financial planner Jennifer Moss. If it’s not new legislation to deal with, it’s clients confusing you with the Yellow Pages, she writes in...

Superannuation

The ATO has given the green light for advisers to use simple super recontribution strategies for their clients, writes Deborah Wixted....

Superannuation

Changes to tax rules have simplified the tax treatment of superannuation savings transferred from overseas, writes Kevin Smith....

Financial planning

One of the persistently used objections to choice of fund is ‘mis-selling’....

Financial planning

The Australian Tax Office has reassured financial planners and investors today by indicating commonly-used superannuation strategies will not attract the anti-avoidance p...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has banned 13 individuals associated with the Victorian-based Wall and Ceiling Superannuation Fund from acting as trustees ...

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