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Cap urged on ongoing super fees
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The Federal Government should act to ensure the capping of ongoing superannuation fees and charges, with the maximum fee being determined by an independent regulator, according to the Canberra-based Australia Institute.
In a submission to the Cooper Review this month, the institute pointed to recent research it had conducted that suggested the choice of fund regime had substantially failed to meet its objectives, with fewer than 10 per cent of workers having actively chosen a fund since 2005 and with choice of fund failing to lower the number of multiple accounts.
The submission made a series of recommendations, including a cap on ongoing fees and charges, the prohibition of entry and exit fees and a prohibition on the payment of ongoing financial advice fees where people have been placed in a default fund.
It said if workers were placed in a default fund then, by definition, they had not made an active decision about that fund and it was therefore unlikely they had received any formal financial advice.
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Mike Taylor
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