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Financial advice

A new research paper developed by three academics has urged the imposition of an over-arching assessment board to oversight the effectiveness of the Australian Securities...

Features and Analysis

As 2018 comes to a close, the Government is gearing up for a 2019 Federal Election, and Mike Taylor writes that it’s superannuation policy report card could best be descr...

Expert Analysis

Jonathan Steffanoni explores possible outcomes of the Royal Commission for the superannuation industry, with the simplification of the law and greater civil penalties lik...

Editorial

With a Federal Election looming, 2019 is emerging as a significant change year for the Australian superannuation industry....

Financial advice

A new survey has revealed strong support for removing bank-provided “general” advice from the superannuation equation....

Superannuation

The Royal Commission has heard that the time-table attaching to the AMP superannuation fund boards’ decision to cut MySuper fees by 50 basis points was devised elsewhere ...

Insurance

Life risk industry veteran, Michael Molesworth, has warned that underwriters and claims assessors need to be subject to more stringent education requirements or risk comm...

Superannuation

As the banks face issues with customer satisfaction so too have their associated super funds, with industry funds having increased their customer satisfaction ratings ove...

Superannuation

The Queensland state secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union has called for bank-owned superannuation funds to be ejected from the industry....

Financial advice

Big industry fund, AustralianSuper has called for an end to grandfathering and for a legal obligation on superannuation funds to provide members with an annual report of ...

Insurance

Within two months of the Banking Royal Commission’s insurance hearings decimating Freedom Insurance, its chief executive, Craig Orton, has announced he will step down for...

Financial advice

Industry funds body, Industry Fund Services has admitted to the Royal Commission that it, too, had to deal with its planners receiving conflicted remuneration including g...

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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. ...

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Kevin Gorman

Super director remuneration ...

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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

Iress has issued an update denying the validity of “certain statements” made today by an alleged threat actor....

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

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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 ...

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