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IFSA to pressure Government for super tax breaks

IFSA will renew the push for the Government to cut front-end superannuation tax, saying such incentives would stem the current retirement savings gap of $452 billion to less than half of its current size. IFSA's Richard Gilbert said high on the agenda ...

Industry and retail fund bickering needs to stop: Planners

The consensus among planners who attended the van Eyk conference in Sydney this week was clear: industry and retail funds need to stop bickering and instead serve consumers as a homogeneous front. On the same day that IFSA released research revealing ...

Industry super funds trump retail master trusts, again

Research commissioned by Industry Fund Services (IFS) shows that industry super funds continue to outperform retail master trusts. The research, carried out by Rainmaker and SuperRatings, also highlighted that this is the eighth consecutive quarter ...

IFSA/Deloitte launch Future Leaders Award

Wealth management peak body IFSA and accounting giant Deloitte have banded together to launch the inaugural Future Leaders Award, in hopes of discovering fresh talent who will help address the financial services industry's burning issues. In an industry ...

Unclaimed super a cash cow for ERFs

... financial institutions who promote them and giving pitiful investment returns. The research was commissioned by executive chair of IFS and not for profit sector ERF AUSfund's Garry Weaven, who said the trustees who transfer member funds to ERFs should ...

Government moves to dampen super tax cut heat

Minister for Finance and Administration, Senator Nick Minchin, has issued a statement seeking to redress remarks he made in a speech on Sunday that were widely reported as a push for government to cut the super contributions tax. Minchin, who made the ...

IFSA CEO pushes for IFRS changes

IFSA CEO, Richard Gilbert, has played an important role in paving the way for potential changes to the new International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), reported in the Financial Standard yesterday. The Financial Standard reported on plans to ...

FSR changes usher era of less but better compliance

It took a long time but the proposed changes to the Financial Services Regulation (FSR), which promised to reduce the compliance burden on the industry while also being more consumer-friendly, were finally passed on as law this week. In a 10-page statement ...

IFSA get set to push product rationalisation

Product rationalisation is high on the agenda for IFSA next year, with estimates that if the reforms it suggests are successful it will save the industry between $120 million and $350 million a year in compliance costs. IFSA's December 2005 report outlines ...

Zurich to launch Life Risk Factory

Zurich Financial Services is to unveil a life risk insurance platform that will make it easier, cheaper and faster for people to get life insurance cover. Zurich's head of life risk Andrew McKee declined to give further comment on the proposed platform ...