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'Choice' dashboard, portfolio disclosure delayed to 2015

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... disclose what managers believe is underlying commercial in confidence information. Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), said, "The product dashboard is an important tool to help people make choices ...

Industry asks for long-term, comprehensive approach to Age Pension

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... proposed measures and that they will be eligible to receive adequate support from the Age Pension in retirement. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) supported the commission's recommendation that the superannuation preservation ...

Industry responds to super fees study

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... early days." Garcia also reaffirmed AIST's support of the awards system as a filter for default fund selection. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), which represents all super funds, said that fees were not the only thing to consider. ...

Nominations open for AFA Excellence in Education Award

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is calling for nominations for the seventh AFA Excellence in Education Award, which will be presented in October at the AFA National Conference in Cairns. The award recognises advisers who invest in themselves ...

SPAA launches online CPD tool

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... continuing professional development (CPD) program. The CPD Compass tool is an online questionnaire available to the association's members and designed to gauge the level the knowledge that advisers have on SMSFs, before recommending specific focus areas ...

Could government issue its own annuities?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... longevity, infrastructure, and inflation linked bonds. Most submissions that dealt with this topic - including the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), the Actuaries Institute, UniSuper and Challenger - focused on the need to remove ...

IPA joins calls for LISC reintroduction

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... calling for a rethink include the Financial Planning Association (FPA), the Financial Services Council (FSC), The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and Industry Super Australia ...

AFA focuses FSI submission on FoFA "misinformation campaign"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) have asked the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to consider whether the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) should have stepped in to address what the association calls a "campaign of misinformation" ...

FPA calls for clear separation of general and personal advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... designed with their interests in mind, despite not having received personal advice on the subject," the FPA said. The association asked the inquiry for strategies to level the playing field such as the introduction of different payment options or tax ...

ASFA and AIST push for tighter regulation of SMSFs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... Financial System Inquiry to call for tighter regulation of the self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) sector. Both the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australian (ASFA), which represents all prudentially-regulated super funds, and the Australian ...