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Financial advice

The chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, James Shipton has suggested that those who are pushing back against the regulator may still have someth...

Superannuation

Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen has hit out at the Government for failing to enable underperforming super funds to be shut down, signalling that a Labor Government would tak...

Financial advice

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed closer scrutiny of advice provided via superannuation funds while noting that conflicts of interest in ...

Superannuation

The rules and definitions imposed by superannuation funds is core to the barriers to access to super faced by indigenous people....

Financial advice

Over a quarter of financial services workers experience extreme levels of stress, and just one in eight are highly engaged with their work, according to a new SuperFriend...

Superannuation

Consensus from experts is that organisational cultural change has to come from the top, making the decisions of some major financial services groups to replace executives...

Superannuation

AustralianSuper’s chief executive, Ian Silk, has suggested that the Banking Royal Commission didn’t cast a stern enough eye over parts of the superannuation industry, in ...

Superannuation

One of the most senior industry superannuation fund chief executives, Ian Silk, has warned other industry funds executives against hubris just because they emerged largel...

Superannuation

Legislation to consolidate low-balance superannuation accounts needs to go further if it is to prevent a cycle of unintended accounts still being created and then consoli...

Financial advice

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has claimed a legal victory with law firm Clayton Utz and AMP Limited finally releasing key documents....

Expert Analysis

Despite the Royal Commission recommending relatively few major changes to the way super funds are operated, it pays for funds to heed the lessons inherent in the spirit o...

Expert Analysis

Financial services barrister Noel Davis examines the testimony given to the Royal Commission and its ultimate findings and suggests that for as much as it discovered ther...

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Grant Banner

From my perspective, 40- 50% of people are likely going to be deeply unhappy about how long they actually live. ...

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Kevin Gorman

Super director remuneration ...

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Anthony Asher

No doubt true, but most of it is still because over 45’s have been upgrading their houses with 30 year mortgages. Money ...

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Iress has issued an update denying the validity of “certain statements” made today by an alleged threat actor....

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The research house has offered a silver lining after super fund returns saw the end of a five-month streak last month....

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A survey of almost 6,000 fund members has identified weakening retirement confidence, particularly among those under 55 years of age, signalling an opportunity for super ...

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