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Internal restructuring hits EQT profits

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
Internal restructuring and exiting from non-core activities has dragged Equity Trustees' profits in FY16, even if the company managed to boost its funds under management by 16% to $65 billion. Net profit after tax fell 21.6% to $13.3 million and revenue ...

Advisers beware the uncomfortable truth of the ageing brain

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016
Advisers risk losing clients or even facing compensation claims if they do not ready their clients for the cognitive decline that arises from ageing, State Street Global Advisors warns. In a new white paper, the global wealth management firm says all ...

Super needs calm after budget shake-up: Vamos

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016
The $2 trillion superannuation industry's ultimate priority in the coming weeks will be to calm its members over what has been described as the biggest shake-up to super in more than a decade. Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chief executive ...

Retired mothers need financial help

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
The lengths Australians go to in order to financially support their parents in retirement has been detailed by an industry superannuation fund survey. Last month REST Industry Super spoke to 1052 Australians who were over 18 and providing financial ...

Budget big picture

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
A budget deficit of $40 billion on its way down to just $6 billion in four years masks a massive 29% increase in tax revenue over the forward estimates, pointing to why Treasurer Scott Morrison has had to go after high-end superannuants and multi-nationals. ...

FSC sends final budget message

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
A reduction in concessional contribution caps for middle-income superannuation members would hurt Australia's budget long-term, bear an increased cost to taxpayers, and not align with super's objective. This is the final message from the Financial Services ...

Super's objective needs to get personal

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
An association for corporate superannuation advisory businesses has labeled the Financial System Inquiry's definition of super's objective as impersonal and believes it should be more meaningful to working Australians. Workplace Super Specialists Australia ...

Federal Government told to stop 'tinkering' with superannuation

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2016
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has recommended the Government enshrine a concise objective of superannuation in legislation and that it occurs through a stand-alone bill, rather than through existing superannuation law. In its submission to the ...

Reducing concessional contribution caps would hurt: SMSFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2016
SMSF Association chief executive Andrea Slattery said any political move to reduce the ability for people to make pre-tax superannuation contributions would unfairly hurt generations X and Y "who have not had the opportunity to build their superannuation ...

Rising age pension costs unfair on young people: CIS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
The cost of the age pension is growing so rapidly that it risks breaking Australia's intergenerational social contract, warns a new report. The report, 'The myths of the intergenerational bargain' by the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), says that ...