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Breaking Australia's love affair with the lump sum

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
As the population ages, Australia's three-pillar retirement system will find itself under unprecedented pressure. According to MTAA Super chief executive Leeanne Turner, over the next decade about four million Australians will retire. An integral part ...

TASA necessary for customer protection: accountants

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... applying technical aspects of the law into financial planning strategies, we have been applying the effect of tax to advice for ages," Ling said. "The inclusion of financial planners into TASA comes at the same time that the limited AFS licence for accountants ...

Direct insurance races for advised market share

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... When it comes to risk mitigation, direct insurers select the best prospects by combining implicit underwriting, excluded ages and benefit types. Plan For Life is expecting to release the full research on June 2013.

2011 and 2012 Redux?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013

Super for all shapes and sizes: QSuper

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... "Australian funds have been giving everybody one-size-fits-all strategy no matter what, but they have got people with different ages, different account balances and yet we are giving them all the same [offering]." QSuper's strategy is based on the income ...

AustralianSuper threatens to sue the Future Fund

STAFF REPORTER  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
AustralianSuper has threatened to sue the Future Fund over its purchase of a stake in Perth airport, the Australian Financial Review has reported. This morning the Australian Financial Review reported that it had obtained a letter, sent on Monday on ...

CGT relief passes House of Reps

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
Capital gains tax relief has been welcomed by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), after the Bill passed through the House of Representatives yesterday. The Bill extends the relief on capital loss rollovers to 1 July 2017 to coincide ...

Advisers force life premiums down

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... premiums from December 2004 to June 2012 were analysed across 11 leading life insurers. Premiums were averaged across four ages (35, 40, 45 and 50) and three sum insured amounts ($250K, $500K and $1 million). The results for a male non-smoker showed ...

Fix philanthropy from ground up: FYA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... foundations and PAFs designed to ignite philanthropic interest. The Immerse program involves taking six to eight people between the ages of 18 and 30 interested in gaining experience in philanthropy with the desire of either continuing or establishing ...

Super funds line up for Sevior

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
Veteran stock picker John Sevior's new fund is being reviewed by CBUS Super for an Australian Equities mandate. CBUS - which had an Australian equities mandate with Sevior's former employer Perpetual at the time of his departures - said that it is doing ...