SUPERANNUATION TRUSTEES
Financial planning
Documentation key to handling death benefit disputes within SMSFs, according to superannuation documentation provider Topdocs....
Financial planning
Rountable questions why the Government takes so long on financial services legislation but acts with speed in imposing substantially higher levies....
Superannuation
The AIST will be lodging a further submission with the Productivity Commission reinforcing that default superannuation funds must be 'fit for purpose'....
Superannuation
ASIC has confirmed the degree to which superannuation trustees can now provide non-licensed advice around super forecasts and retirement estimates....
Superannuation
The same timing problems which impacted FOFA are now impacting MySuper....
Financial planning
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has told the Treasury it wants the rules around the provision of intrafund advice with respect to MySuper products ali...
Superannuation
Industry super funds move to provide more transparency around remuneration ahead of Government-imposed obligations....
Financial planning
The Federal Budget has won little applause and much criticism from the financial services industry....
Financial planning
The Government’s meddling with superannuation has earned the ire of a broad cross section of the financial services industry....
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
Superannuation funds "should be as transparent as listed companies", says Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden....
Superannuation
Government warned that the costs of tinkering with superannuation could far outweigh the benefits....
Superannuation
Performance should be at the core of selecting default funds under modern awards, according to the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees....
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...
Life/Risk
The Government needs to start talking to the major insurers about a standardised approach to auto-consolidation....
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