SUPERANNUATION FUNDS
Financial planning
The first preliminary report of the Cooper Review has pointed to a new architecture for the superannuation industry based on members rather than products, with trustees a...
Financial planning
The challenges of 2009 have demonstrated the underlying strength of the super industry, writes Pauline Vamos....
Financial planning
India is set to benefit from a shift in Australian superannuation fund attitudes to investing in Asia, according to research conducted by the University of New South Wale...
Editorial
It is time for Industry Super Network's David Whiteley to put down the verbal cudgels and for his industry funds’ backers to cease their consequent expenditure of members...
Financial planning
Concerns about regulatory risk will see people relying more on voluntary savings than superannuation....
Financial planning
Financial planners and superannuation fund members may soon be able to compare funds based on a simple scale determined by their relative exposure to risk....
Financial planning
Australian superannuation funds could have been buffered from the onslaught of the global financial crisis if they had invested more in Australian agriculture, according ...
Financial planning
ASFA and AIST backs report to remove the $450 monthly minimum threshold for superannuation guarantee payments, which they say mainly affects the super balances of women....
Financial planning
Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief Pauline Vamos is concerned that financial planners aren't responding to different retirement phases with dif...
Editorial
Alena Miles considers what lies ahead in super and retirement income streams, particularly in light of three major Government policy reviews....
Financial planning
Super funds are missing out on investment opportunities due to risk aversion following the global financial crisis....
Financial planning
Cooper Review asked to consider standardisation of fee disclosure across superannuation funds....
Editorial
Trustees should be free to make investment decisions without regulatory influences that create artificial markets for certain classes, writes Pauline Vamos....
Superannuation
The financial services industry has been called upon to step up to its social obligations when dealing with trustees of self-managed superannuation funds....
Financial planning
Global financial crisis has acted to make some socially responsible investment (SRI) funds less attractive to retail investors. ...
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