SUPERANNUATION

Life/Risk

Superannuation members’ insurance cover could lapse if there is no money in the account to pay the premiums after being drained for early access, a law firm warns....

Superannuation

While the superannuation system is not designed to discriminate against women, it exacerbates the inequality, according to KPMG....

Superannuation

The Retirement Income Review should not neglect looking at the retirement phase and needs to encourage governments to remove super policy from the budget policy cycle, th...

Financial planning

The Government’s latest exposure draft legislation around the recommendations of the Hayne Royal Commission suggest little has been paid to the lobbying of the major fina...

Financial planning

Superannuation funds have been ‘engaged’ by the regulators over payments to financial advisers and other third parties....

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

AMP Limited has announced investment fee reductions impacting clients across MySuper, choice and cash and term deposit products....

Superannuation

The superannuation industry is now big enough and old enough to be broken away from the “coddling’ of the industrial relations system, according to the Federal Government...

Superannuation

Some superannuation funds may have increased their fees simply because they had run down their administration fees to historical lows, according to the Assistant Minister...

Superannuation

A major industry fund has told a Senate Committee that the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s heatmaps got it wrong because of classification errors....

Funds management

Industry fund Hostplus has revealed its multi-million bill for investment and management fees....

Policy & Regulation

Superannuation fund executives and trustees will find themselves the subject to the equivalent of the Bank Executive Accountability Regime under proposals outlined by the...

Superannuation

Balanced super fund returns will take a hit in the coming years as interest rates hit the bottom of the cycle, according to HLB Mann Judd....

Superannuation

Underperforming superannuation funds were warned of their situation before the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority released its controversial heatmaps and they hav...

Superannuation

The Government needs to appoint members to the Fair Work Commission Expert Panel to ensure that only super funds that deliver above a transparent performance benchmark ar...

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

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