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Nearly four years after receiving the initial ministerial direction, APRA is close to delivering on fund-level performance data....

Superannuation

The standard risk measure is not perfect, but it should be implemented now and amended after industry review, according to ASFA....

Superannuation

A statement by the Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten, outlining the Government's approach to default fund selection effectively dismisses t...

Superannuation

Super funds are failing to build business plans around the consequences of MySuper and SuperStream to position themselves post-implementation, according to industry consu...

Superannuation

Super funds must prepare to become a major source of MySuper information to employers, according to the director of industrial relations at the Australian Business Indust...

Expert Analysis

There exist influential elements of the Coalition who are continuing to press for changes to superannuation fund governance and recent testimony to the Royal Commission i...

Expert Analysis

It will not be lost on many of those attending this month’s CMSF on the Gold Coast that they are doing so for the first time in seven years with a Coalition Government si...

Expert Analysis

The recent rapprochement between the FSC and ISN has been welcomed in many quarters, but who is really best suited to speak for Australia’s not-for-profit super funds? ...

Expert Analysis

The Federal Government’s early April policy announcement bore all the hallmarks of a hurried stopgap....

Expert Analysis

Superannuation issues may have dominated political discussion in the early months of 2013, but there will be few industry forums at which to discuss the major issues befo...

Expert Analysis

While recent suggestions that SMSFs are a passing fad currently seem farfetched, there are questions surrounding their appropriateness for some clients that need answerin...

Superannuation

Auto-consolidation of member accounts could drive changes in how superannuation administrators are remunerated, according to industry executives at the Australian Institu...

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Grant Banner

From my perspective, 40- 50% of people are likely going to be deeply unhappy about how long they actually live. ...

4 months 3 weeks ago
Kevin Gorman

Super director remuneration ...

5 months ago
Anthony Asher

No doubt true, but most of it is still because over 45’s have been upgrading their houses with 30 year mortgages. Money ...

5 months ago

The research house has offered a silver lining after super fund returns saw the end of a five-month streak last month....

28 minutes 18 seconds ago

A survey of almost 6,000 fund members has identified weakening retirement confidence, particularly among those under 55 years of age, signalling an opportunity for super ...

1 hour ago

The Financial Services Minister says the amendments to the SIS Act within the first QAR bill will “clarify the law to affirm the status quo”....

2 hours ago