The Federal Government has been warned that its Budget changes capping fees for low balance superannuation accounts could be opening the way for unscrupulous ‘gaming’ of ...
Plaintiff law firm Maurice Blackburn has slammed the Insurance inside Superannuation Working Group as an ‘ineffectual exercise’ which has given rise to serious unintended...
All group life insurance should be “opt-in” according to ClearView managing director, Simon Swanson, in circumstances where the “cheapness” of group can be illusory....
In the days when Rollover strolled the corridors of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery he noted the manner in which certain Parliamentarians sought to use the commit...
Working as he does, cheek by jowl with the staffers at Money Management, Rollover can report that financial planners do not appear to have seriously noted the lower profi...
Rollover doesn’t go much for game-playing, unless that game involves 13 clubs, a dozen balls and 18 holes, but he nonetheless admires the Financial Services Council’s app...
Prime Super and Combined Super have announced that they intend to merge, saying that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding and are in the advanced stages of disc...
TAL’s Ashton Jones writes that superannuation is, for the most part, succeeding in its objective of preparing Australians for retirement....
New analysis conducted by KPMG has confirmed that there is an array of unintended consequences flowing from the Government’s Federal Budget announcement changing the rule...
Does the lack of compulsion around the insurance inside superannuation Code of Conduct mean it lacks teeth? Most participants in the Super Review roundtable believe it do...
Superannuation funds are facing both considerable cost and administrative complexity in seeking to deal with the changes to insurance inside superannuation, not least the...
Has a Pandora’s Box of unintended consequences been opened by via the Federal Budget and the Productivity Commission when it comes changes to the rules around insurance w...
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 ...