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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...
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 ...