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Financial planning

Regulators have again been urged to intervene in the issue of fund promotion as some of Australia’s biggest fund managers and super funds continue to market product...

Financial planning

Australian software firms Financial Synergy and RewardSuper will jointly produce a new software solution, specifically for SMSFs....

Superannuation

Cooper Review recommendations that SMSFs be subject to more stringent auditing requirements will needlessly increase costs, according to accounting firm Chan & Naylor...

Superannuation

The Australian Council of Trade Unions has called for super funds to invest in local infrastructure....

Superannuation

Super funds will have to work even harder to keep their members, as one-third of them have expressed a desire to set up their own self-managed superannuation fund in the ...

Superannuation

Research from KPMG has highlighted the speed with which superannuation funds are improving their online services....

Financial planning

Advisers who have found their ‘revenue world shrinking’ are now considering residential property advice, according to the Ironstone Group’s Jason Isherw...

Superannuation

More than 80 per cent of industry superannuation funds expect to have some sort retirement solution product in place within the next three years – and half of those expec...

Financial planning

The Industry Super Network has reaffirmed its commitment to investing in unlisted assets despite the recent outperformance of retail master trusts....

Superannuation

Research by Russell Investments has found many super fund boards are ineffective in delegating to investment committees, while more than 50 per cent of super funds have n...

Editorial

New technologies and, in particular, software will help financial advisers compete in a hyper-competitive, post-commission environment....

Financial planning

The Cooper Review is focused almost exclusively on fee reductions through the introduction of the “paternalistic” MySuper, while ignoring the importance of fi...

Financial planning

Super funds and their service delivery agents are racing to take new intra-fund advice technology to market. ...

Financial planning

The Financial Services Council (FSC)/PricewaterhouseCoopers CEO survey has revealed that Australia has its work cut out for it before it can meet the challenges of an age...

Financial planning

Several industry fund executives have acknowledged the industry fund's war on commissions has caused collateral damage to financial advice and hurt the ability of super f...

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