SUPERANNUATION INDUSTRY

Financial planning

ASIC has issued a warning to advisers and their licensees after identifying deficiencies in their oversight of Choice super performance....

Superannuation

How much money is made is more important than how it is made, according to AustralianSuper chief investment officer, Mark Delaney, as many superannuation funds struggle t...

Funds management

Investors should embrace that after having benefitted from a relatively benign 2019, the volatility will come back in 2020, according to Schroders....

Superannuation

Rice Warner has warned that the Coalition’s election doesn’t mean the superannuation industry will see a period of policy stability, with some areas of possible reform in...

Superannuation

The standardisation of group insurance terms and conditions could help achieve some of the Banking Royal Commission’s recommendations, a leading insurance law firm has sa...

Superannuation

A new survey has revealed strong support for removing bank-provided “general” advice from the superannuation equation....

Superannuation

The Federal Senate will this week consider the controversial amendment to the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act first proposed by the then-Treasurer Scott Morriso...

Superannuation

The superannuation industry is in danger of being strangled by regulatory over-reach, according to the independent chairman of the Association of Superannuation Funds, Mi...

Superannuation

The Assistant Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg says extensive consultation will occur before any changes to the super borrowing rules....

Superannuation

The SMSF Association has called on both sides of politics to commit themselves to overarching goals for superannuation and to avoid tinkering with superannuation for shor...

Financial planning

An increasing number of participants in the financial services industry are subject to a "best interests" obligation in relation to their clients. But what exactly does ...

Superannuation

The Senate has passed a bill that abolishes duplicative payslip reporting provisions in superannuation legislation, a move the Federal Government says will reduce red tap...

Superannuation

Industry funds have been around since the earliest days of superannuation but in recent years have moved into providing advice and banking services bringing them head to ...

Superannuation

The superannuation industry’s obsession with low fees has wrongly been a focus of the Financial System Inquiry, which should instead be tackling underperformance....

Life/Risk

APRA identifies exit of reinsurers as primary driver of higher premiums in group market....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

5 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

4 weeks ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

1 week 4 days ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

3 weeks ago