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Pandemic exacerbated retirement confidence: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
... outcomes." The report found that while the majority expects the financial impact of the pandemic to be short-lived, Australians are already reacting with respect to their retirement savings. Compared to the rest of the world, a greater proportion of ...

Changes to advice incoming: Bragg

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... that the cost of advice is too high, but it is a difficult issue. We want to make it accessible and affordable for Australians," Bragg said. "It is a heavily regulated area, for various reasons, and I think it needs to be but there must be ways we can ...

Morrison's legacy will be retirement poverty: ACTU

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... and young people, but is being used as a tax minimisation tool by the wealthy." He said that the reason 2.5 million Australians have accessed their super to pay bills was because government had not done enough to support workers through the COVID-19 ...

Australian Ethical posts record results

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
The $4.05 billion wealth manager has reported record inflows of $660 million for the financial year, telling Financial Standard that it's balanced MySuper offering returned 6.9% net of fees for the quarter. For the 2020 financial year, Australian ...

Super-backed specialist centre opens in Hobart

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... in Hobart will pioneer a new approach to care for people living with dementia, the second leading cause of death of Australians. HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey said the opening of the village is a significant milestone towards better care for those ...

AustralianSuper PYS fee under scrutiny again

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
ASIC has been questioned over whether it should have intervened when AustralianSuper introduced a new fee named after the Protecting Your Super legislation. In January AustralianSuper increased its admin fee, saying that from April 1 members would start ...

ERS sees 300,000 repeat applications

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
Around 300,000 Australians lodged their second application to access their super early at the start of the new financial year. APRA had previously warned it was expecting a high volume of applications as the second tranche opened. In total, over $19 ...

Super fund satisfaction mixed, SMSFs unhappy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
At a time when many Australians are engaging directly with their superannuation fund for the first time, member satisfaction appears mixed, with two separate surveys producing some opposing views. That's according to the latest insights from Roy Morgan ...

ATO extends WFH deductions

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
Australians will be able to claim 80 cents for every hour they worked at home due to COVID-19, with the ATO extending the simplified tax deduction method until September 30. Taxpayers will only be required to keep a record of the hours they worked from ...

Australians without advice struggle in pandemic: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... International's latest Pulse Survey, which gauged the mental and financial wellbeing of 200 advised and 220 unadvised Australians during May, found that more than half (52.8%) of unadvised Australians worry about their money daily or weekly, while this ...