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Super accounts on path for consolidation: Shorten

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
... owners' active accounts. "This reform will reunite many Australians with lost and inactive super - bolstering their super savings and meaning they can enjoy a more secure and independent retirement," said Shorten. "It will also reduce the red tape burden ...

Commissioner urges action on super savings

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
With women predicted to live to the average age of 95, Susan Ryan AO, Age Discrimination Commissioner spoke with super funds yesterday about the role they can play to protect ageing Australians. Speaking at Women in Super event, Ryan said superannuation ...

ASFA gets behind phoenix reforms

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2011
... putting a small amount away over the long-term and benefiting from compound interest. "The level of an individual's super savings at retirement is affected whenever there is a break in contributions. "We support any move to close down activity undertaken ...

Super strategy needed for retirees

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... enough, with a new approach to superannuation and changing income needs required to address a lack of understanding in super savings options, said an advice firm. According to Michael Hutton, wealth management partner at HLB Mann Judd Sydney, retirees ...

ASFA calls for rethink on contribution caps

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
... contribution caps that took place in July 2009 were not targeted appropriately and were harmful to people with insufficient super savings attempting to play catch-up later in life. This includes women re-entering the workforce and people looking to ramp ...

PM Gillard: super to support economic stability

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... economy. The Prime Minister also spoke of Monday's Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms in relation to the super savings of Australians and said it should not be about industry or retail funds, but what is best for the consumer. "It doesn't matter ...

FOFA divides on commission

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... aggregate national savings by billions of dollars. "The deduction of advice fees and commissions from Australian's super savings - where no advice is provided - is an unconscionable and unsustainable feature of our compulsory super system," said David ...

Medicare to handle compassionate super payouts

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... of superannuation on compassionate grounds, handing the responsibility to Medicare. Only around $1.5 million of super savings were released through compassionate payments in the 2010/2011 financial year and this is unlikely to rise as a result of the ...

Ministers backed to raise super contribution

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... unique taxation arrangements to help churches afford full-time pastors, ministers are unable to generate enough super savings during their careers to live off in retirement. "In general, ministers' superannuation account balances are lower than those ...

Fees on SG super should be cost-recovery: IPA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... forced to lose money". But Davidson said the 15 per cent tax n superannuation is a bigger economic deadweight on super savings than direct fund fees. Davidson's comments are strikingly similar to the Coalition's and Greens' call for banks to enter a ...