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Gen Y can drive SMSF growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
SMSF Association chief executive Andrea Slattery sees a growth opportunity for financial advisers by delivering holistic services to increasing SMSF interest among Generation Y clients. Research commissioned by the SMSF Association and nabtrade shows ...

ISA voices strong opposition to "radical" super reform

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... corporation without a rational or compelling basis, and will undermine the representative trustee system." However, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) endorsed the government's proposal of having one third of independent ...

ASFA appoints independent chair

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has appointed its first independent chair following Jim Minto's decision to retire from the role and as a director on 30 July. Minto was appointed chair in November 2013, and has been an ASFA ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... local economic news on Monday, CEDA has a panel discussion on the future workforce while the Self Managed Super Fund Association and the National Australia Bank's report into SMSF sector is due out and the Financial Services Council and Commonwealth ...

SMSF Association launches accreditation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
The SMSF Association has launched an accreditation program for financial services workers willing to know the basics of self-managed super funds (SMSFs). The SMSF Practitioner (SSP) program is a practical, foundation-based SMSF designation aimed at ...

It's not the when but the what happens after

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... below it" - 37.5% in 2013; 38.4% in 2014; and, 47.4% this year to date....and counting. That's if the latest American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Sentiment Survey is any guide. The AAII's survey for the week ending 22 July shows that "neutral ...

Member engagement a danger to super savings

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... said. Wills said that the problem is "when you get to 67 you don't tend to be disengaged." Quoting a study by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) on super fund member behaviour during the global financial crisis, he said, "in ...

Singapore looks to Australia on risk reforms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... "better [protected] consumers." Similar to the Life Insurance Framework agreed upon by the Financial Services Council, Association of Financial Advisers and Financial Planning Association of Australia, the reforms target remuneration structures in insurance ...

Insurance advisers focusing on client segmentation

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... in Financial Standard, Connected Convenience, another recent Beddoes white paper - co-produced with Zurich and the Association of Financial Advisers - addresses this issue from a communications standpoint. It concluded that there are generational differences ...

Ipac head of technical services joins Perpetual

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... Diploma of Superannuation Management from Macquarie University. He has been an SMSF specialist adviser for the SMSF Association since 2006 and is a founding member of the ASFA 300 (SMSFs) unit committee.