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Default super must protect member interests: AIST

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... survey conducted by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) found a majority (91%) of Australian employees want profits to be reinvested back in their superannuation fund rather than distributed to other stakeholders. AIST chief executive ...

Review life insurance ahead of super reforms: BT

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... income is sourced. "While the tax benefits are the same as salary sacrificing, having access to this option will allow employees to fund insurance using pre-tax dollars, when they are not able to salary sacrifice. As salary sacrifice arrangements must ...

Be careful what you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... in the suppliers to that industry and the suppliers to the suppliers, there is an increase in wages and salaries to employees in this chain. The spending of these wages and salaries induces a further round of consumption effects in other areas of the ...

Global merger creates new listed manager

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
... with expanded product suites, greater financial strength and better talent, benefiting our clients, shareholders and employees."

NAB adviser puts beneficiaries at risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
... and is not acceptable," Steele said. The incidents have been reported to ASIC, with NAB Financial Planning asking all employees to report any instances in which they're aware of this practice and advisers will have non-compliance consequences applied. ...

SMSF associations announce merger

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... contributions, which already breaches the $25,000 cap the government is imposing on 1 July 2017. Baby Boomers and Gen X employees with SMSFs have to put the brakes on retirement savings by the new, lower cap on concessional contributions, with 25.9% ...

Labor fights phoenix fraud

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
The Federal Opposition is acting to protect employees and small businesses from phoenix activity through a package of proposed reforms. The package will see the granting of new enforcement tools for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...

Big four hammer bank levy

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... increasing rates charged to borrowers, reducing rates paid to savers or "investing less in our workforce; all 34,000 employees, most of whom live and work in the communities they serve across Australia." Commonwealth Bank chair Catherine Livingstone ...

Macquarie to pay $2m following ASIC probe

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
... bank's wholesale foreign exchange business. ASIC determined that on multiple occasions between 2008 and 2013, Macquarie employees disclosed confidential details of pending client orders and Macquarie trading activity to third parties, and spot FX traders ...

Women in Super names 2017 scholarship winners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017
... about superannuation and we support employers introducing measures to improve superannuation outcomes for their female employees," she said. But what WIS doesn't support is the view that women have to make up for their lower retirement savings without ...