The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has acknowledged the stark choices facing superannuation funds in dealing with the new low-balance fee cap – increasing the...
Prime Super will abolish administration fees for super accounts with balances under $6,000 from 1 July, after assessing the impact the Protecting Your Super reforms would...
Scott Morrison’s election victory may have offered super funds temporary relief where franking credit reforms are concerned. With dividend imputation credits expected to ...
IOOF has declared its confidence that it can meet the June deadline for meeting the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s requirements around its superannuation bu...
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has put a number of financial institutions on notice that their governance arrangements are such that they risk being subje...
Wilson Asset Management chair, Geoff Wilson believes the Senate cross-benchers will help persuade a Labor Government to at least amend its policy on removing refundable f...
Industry fund HostPlus has been made to pay a $12,600 infringement notice penalty for claiming its advice was ‘independent’....
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has warned superannuation funds that they have a higher duty to member best interests and may be held to account when it co...
The standardisation of group insurance terms and conditions could help achieve some of the Banking Royal Commission’s recommendations, a leading insurance law firm has sa...
Maurice Blackburn Lawyers has called on the Federal Government to implement mandatory and enforceable codes of practice for the insurance industry....
Despite Australia having a comparatively limited retirement income product offering, a regulatory framework created over two decades ago stymies companies wanting to laun...
Superannuation funds have largely ignored the after-tax investing obligations that the Stronger Super reforms embedded into the law, implementation manager Parametric has...
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 ...