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Financial services workers content with pandemic changes

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
... of technology while 63% expect increased innovation to benefit customers. The study draws insights from over 1000 Australians across multiple industries including financial services exploring how they rate their employer's response over the last six ...

Calls for consent forms, opt-ins to be scrapped

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms have been unsuccessful and have only made advice less accessible to ordinary Australians. Ardino and Harrison appeared to hit back at suggestions from the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) that ...

Kogan Super reports growth

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... New Zealand customers. "We have built a diversified, resilient business over many years, which enabled us to help Australians in their time of need," Kogan founder and chief executive Ruslan Kogan said. "In the midst of the crisis, our teams mobilised ...

Young-old wealth gap widest in 18 years

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... underutilisation and lower levels of home ownership. Another driver is the skew of government spending towards older Australians - it rose from 3.7% of the GDP to 4.5% for 65-74 year old but was flat for 25-34, 45-54 age groups. "It is very important ...

LNP halts push for SG rise

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... Senator Hume said she is "ambivalent" on the issue and acknowledged the government faces a hard task in explaining to Australians why they should sacrifice more of their wages for super. The statement comes after the Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe ...

40% of ERS applicants not eligible: illion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... the scheme has continues to drive a huge spending boom and that the program has not been used as intended by many Australians. "The analysis of de-identified, aggregated information from more than 10,000 Australians who withdrew superannuation early ...

Wealthy Aussies panic buy life insurance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... highest among the 19 countries surveyed. It comes as GlobalData's COVID-19 Tracker Survey highlighted that 83% of Australians were quite or extremely concerned about the outbreak of the pandemic, with only 5% who were not concerned. GlobalData senior ...

ERS will impact those who didn't access super: REST

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... while the remaining 70% have not. She added that the benefit to the current crisis has been the increased engagement Australians have had with their super. "We have had more people interested in superannuation than ever before and, for some, we have ...

ATO announces SMSF age limit changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... contributions for SMSFs. The ATO the changes have been made as part of its Superannuation - improving flexibility for older Australians measure. Changes, which were effective 1 July 2020, include making voluntary concessional and non-concessional super ...

Super fees hit record lows: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... those proponents of the Future Fund becoming a default super fund, if it were to happen the study shows it would leave Australians significantly out of pocket. If super funds had the same investment costs as the Future Fund, average investment fees would ...