SUPERANNUATION

Superannuation

Showing superannuation fund members their projected retirement wealth encourages higher rates of salary sacrifice and engagement, according to a report....

Superannuation

After 10 consecutive positive financial year returns, super funds saw a mixed start to 2019/20 due to the market’s response to the US/China trade war....

Superannuation

Super Consumers Australia is launching a ‘people’s advocate’ in the super sector to improve the system for low to middle income people....

Superannuation

NSW Liberal Senator, Andrew Bragg has signalled the prospect of a crack-down on superannuation activists who seek to use member funds to exact influence on listed compani...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC has released its proposed whistleblower guidance to be implemented by 1 January 2020....

Financial planning

Will changes to default superannuation arrangements combine with changes to income streams serve to squeeze many advisers out of the superannuation market?...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned former Melbourne financial adviser Robert Michael for dishonestly borrowing money from his clients’ self-m...

Financial planning

Some financial planners believe industry funds are utilising scaled advice services to gain an advantage....

Tools & guides

IOOF’s Claudine Siou explains how your super would be affected in the event of bankruptcy. ...

Superannuation

The Financial Services Council (FSC) says there is a need to fix superannuation defaults to adjust to a high amount of multiple job holders and the creation of ‘zombie’ s...

Superannuation

Making extra withdrawals from superannuation every year could still cause problems for members, according to Bob Locke from SMSF specialist Practical Systems Super, despi...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has fired a shot over the bows of superannuation funds tempted to provide inducements to employers to nominate them a...

Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has used specific polling to claim the Government will lose electoral support if it pursues measures which undermine the superannuation guarantee...

Policy & Regulation

Former Prime Minister, Paul Keating, has weighed into the debate around the future of the superannuation guarantee, accusing the Government of double-speak....

Superannuation

The SMSF Association has thrown its support behind the Australian Securities and Investments Commission decision to disqualify or add conditions to 17 auditors of self-ma...

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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 ...

4 months 2 weeks ago

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

6 months 3 weeks 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. ...

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

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ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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