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FSC, FPA support ASIC user-pay model

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
Both the Financial Services Council and Financial Planning Association of Australia have voiced their support for an industry funding model for ASIC. On August 28, Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg welcomed industry consultation on the proposal while ...

PROFILE: AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... allowed Wade the opportunity to professionally affiliate with several representative groups. She is a fellow of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) and earlier this year Wade ceased her non-executive director role at Women in ...

Reform summit must keep momentum: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said it supported open discussion at the National Reform Summit and believes the focus should remain on directing resources where the super system needs improvement. ASFA believes the super ...

CORRECTION: AFA COO joins netwealth

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
An executive from the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) will join netwealth as head of governance and advice. Phil Anderson was the AFA's chief operating officer and will now lead netwealth-owned Pathway Licensee Service. He will also provide ...

Australians are hardly retirement ready

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... expected to reach 98% of what is considered to be comfortable retirement savings ($58,444). This is based on the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) retirement standards released in March 2015, although ASFA recently updated the standards. ...

AFA Female Excellence semi-finalists named

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and TAL have announced the semi-finalists for the 2015 AFA Female Excellence in Advice Award. Next Step Financial Group's Crystal Broadfoot, Perspective Financial Services' Esther Althaus, Carrington Financial ...

Put your tax return in to super

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... is a potential solution to raising the extra $130,000 A needed for a comfortable retirement as suggested by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) earlier this week. Club Plus Super chief executive, Paul Cahill, said tax refunds ...

Australians need another $130,000 for retirement: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
The idea you will need $1 million in retirement appears to be further busted after the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) released its latest retirement standard. However the updated ASFA figure suggests Australian's will need to ...

Scrapping dividend imputation costly for retirees

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... federal government but it will have long-term effects on Australians' retirement savings. This is the belief held by Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chief executive Pauline Vamos. Yesterday ASFA released research that showed abolishing ...

Australians seeing Centrelink as "life insurance substitute"

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... Scheme and Centrelink as effective substitutes, suggests research commissioned by Zurich and the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA). The research, carried out by CoreData, is the basis for the Zurich/FPA Insurance Literacy Index, which ...