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Superannuation

Super Review has rounded up 10 key events from the history of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority as it marks 25 years since it was founded in July 1998....

Superannuation

With two business days left in FY19, superannuation funds are poised to see a positive return of 7.1 per cent for the financial year, outstripping the current rate of inf...

Expert Analysis

The Stronger Super legislation will endow the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority with greater powers, but ultimately, it will be a question of how those powers ar...

Expert Analysis

The controversy which has surrounded MTAA Super, combined with recent events elsewhere in the superannuation industry, suggest the use-by date applying to traditional tru...

Expert Analysis

A strategy that utilises put options can cushion investors against dramatic market downswings, writes Simon Ho....

Expert Analysis

With millions of dollars having been expended on advertising comparing industry super funds with retail master trusts, there is a growing feeling that it is time for the ...

Expert Analysis

Emerging market equities have increasingly become significant alternatives for the international investor. Investors are being drawn to an arena that on the one hand appe...

Expert Analysis

While not one Australian superannuation fund has collapsed or been suspended during the global financial crisis that does not mean they have emerged unscathed or that the...

Superannuation

The 81,000 members of UniSuper's defined benefits scheme could end up with less money in retirement than they have been promised, with the fund set to make a decision abo...

Superannuation

The 25 per cent drawdown relief for account-based pensions has been extended to the 2012-2013 financial year, in a move the Government says will benefit around 125,000 se...

Superannuation

BNY Mellon Asset Management strategist, Jack Malvey, doubts current market challenges will fail to match those of 2008....

Superannuation

The ASX 200 is at worst fair value, and at best trading at a 30 per cent discount to bonds - making equities cheaper now than they were during the global financial crisis...

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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 ...

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While the controversial measures have received little support in the Senate, the think tank has said Division 296 would “make the nation’s super system fairer”....

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In its pre-election policy document, the FSC highlighted 15 priority reforms, with superannuation featuring prominently, urging both major parties to avoid changing super...

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With the merger between Mine Super and TWUSuper in its late stages, the head of the soon-to-be combined fund is the latest to join ASFA’s board. ...

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