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Superannuation
A major industry superannuation fund has called for defined benefit funds to be excluded from the Government’s proposed new product intervention powers for the Australian...
Financial advice
The Federal Government has been warned of unintended consequences flowing from its plans to impose a 30 per cent withholding tax on international capital in the property ...
Superannuation
Major superannuation funds have expressed concern at having to retain at least 0.25 per cent of their funds under management to meet operational risk financial requiremen...
SMSF
The clock is ticking for self-managed superannuation funds on a quarterly transfer balance cap schedule, with their first lodgement due in three weeks....
SMSF
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has urged the mandating of a minimum balance for self-managed superannuation funds and a ban on limited recourse borr...
Superannuation
New analysis suggests that Labor’s proposed changes to dividend imputation could have unintended consequences extending well beyond SMSFs to industry and retail superannu...
Financial advice
Industry superannuation funds are urging the imposition of greater comparability around fees, costs and performance to give transparency around advisers switching members...
Superannuation
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has been urged not to finalise its views on its new superannuation prudential framework until the final findings of the Roy...
Superannuation
The Government has released draft legislation to exempt some older Australians with low super balances from the work test. ...
Superannuation
Long-serving Superannuation Complaints Tribunal member, Noel Davis, has pointed to superannuation funds too often ignoring Tribunal determinations and therefore failing t...
Financial advice
The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has highlighted a toxic sales culture and a failure to regulate wrongd...
Financial advice
Better targeting those with future social support needs could deliver big budget savings and better outcomes for those within Australia’s social security system, the Actu...
From my perspective, 40- 50% of people are likely going to be deeply unhappy about how long they actually live. ...
Super director remuneration ...
No doubt true, but most of it is still because over 45’s have been upgrading their houses with 30 year mortgages. Money ...