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Financial planning

Contributing to superannuation is looking less attractive for high income earners following the tax changes in this year's Federal Budget, according to Tupicoffs adviser ...

Editorial

If, as is being widely speculated, the Federal Government uses the Federal Budget to once again alter the tax setting around Australia’s superannuation system, the ALP wi...

Superannuation

Industry super funds argue for retention of awards in default superannuation funds because they sometimes deliver more than the minimum....

Superannuation

Superannuation funds must ensure they are 'fiduciaries first and marketers second', according to Superannuation Complaints Tribunal chair Jocelyn Furlan....

Superannuation

The Government needs to take a more demographic-centric approach to superannuation policy by adopting a soft-compulsion system for persons under the age of 40, according ...

Superannuation

The Government has no reasons based on equity to alter the taxation arrangements applying to superannuation, according to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Austr...

Superannuation

The Institute of Public Accountants has called for a soft compulsion approach to superannuation contributions for younger Australians with compulsory contributions and hi...

Financial planning

A study commissioned by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has emphasised the damaging effect that taking a career break has on women's superannuation ba...

Superannuation

The superannuation guarantee will gradually increase from 9 per cent to 12 per cent over the next seven years, following the passage of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax thr...

OnePath’s technical team takes a look at the superannuation guarantee increase and finds the more things change the more they stay the same....

Superannuation

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has warned the Government not to tinker with the superannuation tax settings....

Policy & Regulation

The cost of further superannuation tax concessions is inaccurate and based on outdated data, according to new ASFA research....

Superannuation

The Federal Government needs to consider what impact any changes to Australia's superannuation regime will have on various sectors of the community, according to Institut...

Superannuation

Provisio is arguing that backward-looking superannuation analyses are selling fund members short....

Policy & Regulation

The number of Australians receiving financial advice will double under the FOFA reforms while the number of advisers will remain stable, according to research commissione...

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