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Choice of super fund won't always work: REST

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016
... "would be much less likely to happen." Industry Super Australia (ISA) and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) have commissioned a review by former Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor and Treasury Secretary Bernie Fraser to ...

FPA charity names new chair

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA), has appointed Matthew Rowe as chair and added three new directors/trustees. Rowe has been the Future2 chair elect since 2014. He joined the Future2 board in 2011 when he was chair of the FPA. Until July ...

SMSF capability added to BT Panorama

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... establishment and management of an SMSF, supported by services that will help streamline the establishment process for individual trustees. Also included in this initial rollout are administration features that will allow advisers, accountants and clients ...

ASIC forms its views on MySuper dashboards

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
... be effective it must be useful to as wide an audience as possible. "This testing should be helpful to superannuation trustees in engaging with consumers with varying levels of knowledge and interest in superannuation," Tanzer said. ASIC said consumer ...

IOOF division launches philanthropy services

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
Australian Executor Trustees (AET), a division of IOOF, has launched a number of philanthropy solutions that will allow advisers access to structures that will benefit their clients. The firm has also assisted Queensland University of Technology (QUT) ...

Over 30% SMSFs hold low balances: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... structured by experienced fund managers." Another surprise was the low take-up of exchange traded funds (ETFs) among trustees. The exposure to this investment vehicle was an average 17% of the total portfolio. "We thought the number would have grown ...

SMSFs ramp up trading in turbulent markets

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... Marcus Evans said, and added that the data "dispels the myth that SMSFs are conservative investors." When comparing SMSF trustees with other retail investors, CommSec analysis found that individual funds trade equities twice as much as other investors. ...

Super governance saga continues

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... trustee governance bill. ASFA has told O'Dwyer it would support the federal government removing the requirement for super trustees to disclose to members on an 'if not, why not' basis whether their board has a majority of independent directors. ASFA ...

Third SMSF auditor banned

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... in the SMSF sector. "SMSF auditors must maintain high standards or ASIC will hold them to account," Price said. SMSF trustees and members can check whether their auditor is registered, or whether a person has been disqualified, by searching ASIC's SMSF ...

Governance bill loses Senators' support

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
Industry Super Australia (ISA) and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) have shown their weight in Canberra by convincing four crossbench Senators to vote down the superannuation trustee governance bill in parliament. It is reported ...