ISA
Insurance
A guidance note on group insurance data to improve consumer outcomes has been jointly released by life insurance and super bodies....
Women's Wealth
Women were underpaid $1.84 billion in super contributions by their employers in 2013 to 2014, according to ISA’s study....
Superannuation
Senior ATO and Treasury officials have pointed to the rarity of employers using employee salary sacrifice arrangements to reduce the SG contributions....
Superannuation
Commbank’s not-for-profit staff fund outperformed by 2.8 per cent per year on one of the largest retail super funds it recommended to customers, according to ISA....
SMSF
More than 80 per cent of SMSFs were of a scale that was likely to result in sub-standard performance, ISA believes....
Superannuation
Banks have become better at targeting how they bundle up business banking and employee default super, according to ISA....
Superannuation
The Government’s consultative processes around establishing a super objective have been described as ‘superficial’ by Industry Super Australia....
Superannuation
The superannuation industry has united in telling a Senate Committee the bar needs to be lifted on the objective of superannuation....
Superannuation
Retirees near thresholds with simple investments could be living off less than the full Age Pension as a result of pension cuts, according to ISA....
Insurance
A working group has been established to develop a code of conduct/practice for insurance in superannuation....
Superannuation
Retail and bank-owned super funds’ slow transition of members to MySuper products is most likely a deliberate strategy by retail wealth managers, according to ISA....
Superannuation
Bundling of super and cross-selling by banks may amount to third-line forcing, according to Industry Super Australia....
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 ...