SUPERANNUATION

Financial planning

The bank has created a new division that will encompass its wealth platforms, superannuation and retirement products, investments, general and life insurance, and auto fi...

Financial planning

Lower superannuation fund returns over the long term may see financial planners forced to change their traditional advice model around superannuation, particularly for th...

Superannuation

The players’ association of the highest level of Australian rules football has extended their 20-year partnership with AMP as the default superannuation provider....

Features

Self-managed superannuation funds have been weathering the COVID-19 storm, writes Mike Taylor, but should be alert to the price they may be asked to pay as part of the re...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has challenged the sense and workability of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s proposals around time-limited supera...

Financial planning

A key parliamentary committee has received more evidence about how industry superannuation funds are delivering financial advice and what it cost. ...

Superannuation

Government Senators are claiming vindication because a senior Treasury official has suggested Industry Super Australia may have used inappropriate data to inflate the imp...

Funds management

As the current crisis is testing investment ‘truths’, Parametric has claimed gold’s expected negative correlation to equities is worth interrogating with an institutional...

Superannuation

With the average early release superannuation draw-down standing at slightly over $8,000 and with the load spread across virtually superannuation funds, the industry is h...

Superannuation

A 25-year-old who accessed $10,000 of their superannuation early could lose $60,000 when they retire, an accounting firm warns. ...

Policy & Regulation

NSW Liberal Senator and former Financial Services Council policy executive, Andrew Bragg has denied a letter he wrote to constituents on early release superannuation is t...

Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has announced it has disqualified, suspended or added conditions to the registration for a number of self-managed sup...

Superannuation

People who are doubtful about whether to seek hardship early release access to their superannuation should ask a trusted financial adviser or tax agent or visit use an AS...

Superannuation

Superannuation funds will have to file weekly reports with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority on the impacts of the Government’s hardship early release progra...

Financial planning

New survey data commissioned by the industry funds suggests that up to a million people seeking early access to their superannuation are actually ineligible because they ...

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