Expert Analysis

Expert Analysis

While the superannuation industry has focused much attention on addressing post-retirement issues in 2014, the Government policy pot-holes remain as large as ever. ...

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

The critics of the fees and charges exacted by Australian superannuation funds inevitably overlook the costs entailed in delivering a quality product. ...

Expert Analysis

Issues raised before the Royal Commission into Trade Union governance ought to give APRA food for thought. ...

Expert Analysis

Much has been made of the manner in which outgoing APRA chairman, John Laker, oversaw the recovery of the regulator in the aftermath of HIH but it would be wrong to forge...

Expert Analysis

While there are plenty of economists and commentators questioning the cost of providing superannuation tax concessions, too few seem to have actually considered what woul...

Expert Analysis

With the Financial Services Council locked in litigation with the Fair Work Commission over default funds, Mike Taylor wonders whether the changes wrought via the Cooper ...

Expert Analysis

The Federal Treasurer, Joe Hockey, has committed to a tight Budget but that should not preclude a reassessment of the LISC in the same context as pausing the rise in the ...

Expert Analysis

The industry funds have been running their ‘compare the pair’ advertising campaign for well over half a decade and it is only now that the Australian Securities and Inves...

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

Many industry fund executives remain deeply suspicious of the reasons behind the rise and rise of SMSFs, but their focus might be better directed towards better understan...

Expert Analysis

Both retail master trusts and industry superannuation funds have been losing members to self-managed superannuation funds and this is only likely to change by offering im...

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

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Super director remuneration ...

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