SUPERANNUATION FUND

Funds management

Web-based comparision sites and blanket television advertising campaigns are serving to hijack super fund members....

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Life/Risk

CommInsure plans to make superannuation funded insurance more attainable and less financially painful for all Australians, with its latest offering. ...

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Superannuation

Almost half the population do not have a proper understanding of insurance within their super, especially generation Y (under 32)....

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Superannuation

Superannuation fund claims vertical integration is stifling competition and the Government’s changes to FOFA have not helped....

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Superannuation

Self-Managed Superannuation Fund service providers with origins in accounting tend to be bigger and more profitable than those that started out as financial planner or ad...

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia (ISA) has voluntarily offered to change its 'Compare the Pair’ advertising campaign after concerns were raised by the Australian Securities and I...

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Superannuation

APRA has admitted it doesn’t monitor the expenses of superannuation fund executives or trustees....

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Superannuation

ASIC grants relief to super fund’s advisory arm to reduce advisor exposure to personal liability....

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Funds management

High income earners could sidestep the Federal Government’s 2 per cent Temporary Budget Repair Levy by investing outside of their superannuation fund in investment bonds....

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Superannuation

Government changes generous defined benefit military super to accumulation arrangements....

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Superannuation

New research confirms most superannuation fund executives and trustees believe few members understand what super is delivering in terms of insurance cover....

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Superannuation

A new survey has revealed that over a third of super fund sector personnel have considered establishing an SMSF....

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Superannuation

ASIC and APRA jointly clarify the need for consistent information on MySuper products....

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Financial planning

Tasmanian-based industry funds set to merge....

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Life/Risk

Superannuation-based life insurance creating false sense of security and incorrect insurance cover....

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Squeaky'21

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. ...

9 months ago

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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