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Right advice delivers $1.7m

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
... value of professional financial advice is no simple feat, but the latest case studies by the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) found eight Australians reaped a total $1.7 million in savings and profits with the right advice. The catch ...

Super gender gap narrows

... Men still have double the savings in super than women but a new report shows that women are fast catching up. The Association of Superannuation Funds in Australia (ASFA) used data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Survey of Income and Housing ...

Byrne departs UniSuper

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... 2007. Byrne remains deputy president of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors and board member of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia. Paul Murphy, executive manager of marketing and business development at UniSuper and ...

Cut super tax, boost co-contribution

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
... co-contribution policy revamped to boost national saving levels, suggests two major finance industry bodies. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia and the Investment and Financial Services Association yesterday applauded the Prime Minister's ...

Szondy joins Frontier

... fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia and a fellow of the Association of Superannuation Funds in Australia (ASFA). In addition, Szondy is a member of the Victorian Executive Group of ASFA and ...

SMSFs keep portfolios unchanged

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... allocation would cause a considerable change in the market. Andrea Slattery, chief executive at the SMSF Professional Association of Australia (SPAA), concurred and said they did not expect any major changes to asset allocation as a result of uncertain ...

Super advice for $199

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
... financial advice was a positive move. Paul Vesteege, policy coordinator at Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association of New South Wales said, they normally advised members to seek independent financial advice. "This would probably not be classed ...

SMSFs lead charge

... they have with their super," said Andrea Slattery, chief executive of the SMSF peak body, the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia Ltd (SPAA). She added that it is also all about control, where the statistics suggest future retirees want to manage ...

Members require ID checks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has warned that superannuation fund members may need to provide additional identification before they can receive their fund benefits, following the implementation of anti-money laundering ...

NZ planners regs improve fee transparency

... their clients. Local planning groups, alongside industry bodies the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), have also urged members to be more transparent with fees and disclose likely conflicts-of-interest ...