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SMSF trustees are being encouraged to review their current finance rates after changes to the safe harbour rates benchmark affecting LRBAs. ...
Superannuation
Industry Super Australia has warned that super fund members need to ensure they’re not throwing letters from their funds in the bin or marking emails as spam, as that cou...
Superannuation
Making her first official address as Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Senator Jane Hume has today confirmed that the Morrison Government intends to return to the Pr...
Financial planning
Superannuation fund members are being encouraged to use the 1 July, 2019 Protecting Your Super deadline as an opportunity to check the performance of their fund....
Superannuation
Super funds aren’t providing adequate high-quality, ethical and sustainable investment options, according to a survey of advisers, with many so-called ethical options fai...
Superannuation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has chosen AustralianSuper as the default fund for all new employees from 1 July, this year....
SMSF
Self-managed superannuation funds both outperformed other super fund options and saw a decrease in operational costs, according to the latest statistics from the Australi...
Policy & Regulation
Industry superannuation funds are urging the Australian Financial Complaints Authority to publish data which identifies which particular types of financial services organ...
Policy & Regulation
Industry funds body, the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has urged that insurance claims handling be subject to the financial advice rules – something whi...
Policy & Regulation
The financial services industry has delivered the Budget a muted response in circumstances where the Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, had announced most of the Government’s fi...
Superannuation
The ongoing rally in the share market treated super funds well, with the median growth fund gaining 2.7 per cent in February as the Australian share market jumped six per...
Superannuation
The Productivity Commission report has missed an opportunity to show how the industry’s pre-tax investment focus might penalise members who retire on after-tax returns....
SMSF
While the Productivity Commission modified its earlier findings to better reflect true SMSF returns in its final report, Class has warned that aspects of its calculations...
Financial planning
Superannuation funds have been placed on notice about the dangers of their telephone consultants drifting into their area of specific personal advice, with a fund ordered...
Superannuation
Amid market speculation that Catholic Super has found two funds with which to merge, its chief executive, David O’Sullivan, has reaffirmed the fund’s broad merger intenti...
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