SUPERANNUATION FUNDS
Policy & Regulation
The cost of further superannuation tax concessions is inaccurate and based on outdated data, according to new ASFA research....
Financial planning
Investors need to adopt a risk-based approach to portfolio construction amid the current market volatility, according to global fund manager Standard Life Investments....
Financial planning
ASIC commissioner Peter Kell has defended the regulator's decision to reveal the "headline results" of its recent financial planning shadow shop to the Parliamentary Join...
Financial planning
APRA has confirmed it is paying legal firms in the order of $3.5 million in contractual arrangements around superannuation fund investigations....
Financial planning
Short-term reporting and the supposed effect of past performance on the future benefits of a superannuation fund encourage unnecessary knee-jerk reactions from members, a...
Superannuation
Provisio is arguing that backward-looking superannuation analyses are selling fund members short....
Financial planning
APRA has confirmed it is paying legal firms in the order of $3.5 million in contractual arrangements around superannuation fund investigations....
Financial planning
Short-term reporting and the supposed effect of past performance on the future benefits of a superannuation fund encourage unnecessary knee-jerk reactions from members, a...
Editorial
The Government may be talking the talk with respect to simplifying superannuation, but according to Liz Westover its actions on excess concessional contributions suggest ...
Financial planning
Financial planning groups have expressed serious concerns about ASIC's proposal to allow transition-to-retirement (TTR) strategies within intra-fund financial advice....
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has warned of the hypocrisy of allowing superannuation funds to bundle scaled financial advice costs into an over-arching adminis...
Superannuation
Superannuation funds are largely unprepared for the onset of the Stronger Super regime, which could see some funds lose over 10 per cent of their members, according to an...
Financial planning
The cost of a comfortable retirement remains steady according to the latest ASFA data....
Superannuation
The cost of a comfortable retirement remains steady according to the latest ASFA data....
Policy & Regulation
FOFA's approach to financial advice delivered by superannuation funds could result in conflicting decisions on disputes in different jurisdictions....
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