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Superannuation

Expert panel advocates finding a concessional caps’ sweet spot and limiting lump sums....

Life/Risk

Funds receiving compulsory lost super transfers via the ATO should be required to deliver on insurance, says ASFA....

Financial planning

Tyndall Asset Management has launched an institutional version of its Tyndall Australian Share Concentrated Fund....

Superannuation

New analysis paints superannuation as a growth industry in the new financial year....

Life/Risk

New measures introduced in the 2013 Budget will have an important flow-on effect on insurance in super, writes David Glen. ...

Superannuation

Independent planners have been squeezed out of tendering for corporate superannuation - or so it seems for now. ...

Superannuation

The high level of unknowns resulting from rapidly completed super legislation will require the regulators to be tolerant....

Superannuation

ASFA has called for an independent review of large SuperStream costs....

Financial planning

ASFA's Pauline Vamos argues the increasing complexity involved in dealing with post-retirement issues justifies a specialist qualification for planners. ...

Financial planning

An Auditor-General’s report is unlikely to dampen financial services industry grumbling about how AUSTRAC is funded....

Financial planning

The move by governments and corporates to exit the pension business, combined with the first waves of baby boomers reaching retirement, has shifted a higher level of risk...

Financial planning

Provisio Technologies will offer its online advice tools to financial planners, expanding its user base from superannuation funds into the single and scale advice and pla...

Superannuation

Following SuperRatings criticism of the FSC/ASFA standard risk measure yesterday, ASFA has said it will incorporate the points made in a review of the SRM later this year...

Financial planning

Research house Lonsec has joined with actuarial consulting firm Milliman to launch a new service aimed at the Australian retirement income market....

Financial planning

Specialist manager Ardea Investment Management has pointed to current industry discussion around "outcome-driven investing" as being an extension of Inflation Linked Bond...

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