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Super delivers 12.2% for year end April

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... experiencing very poor returns only marginally positive in 'real' inflation adjusted terms. The top 5 Workplace funds are PSSap, CSS, Military Super, Aust Ethical and Telstra Super. The top 5 Personal funds by their balanced options were HostPlus, Fiducian ...

Groups call for default super fund decoupling

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
Corporate super representative group CSSA is calling on the industry funds movement to apply its standards of financial planning in the superannuation sector. Recently the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption announced it was ...

Corporate super adviser body beefs up to face challenges

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
The Corporate Super Specialist Alliance (CSSA) has appointed its first salaried chief executive to lead the way for embattled corporate super financial advisers. Former CSSA president Douglas Latto will take up the position of chief executive officer ...

Government Cyber Security Strategy already out of date

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... security of the financial system as a whole is only as strong as its weakest link. Australia has a Cyber Security Strategy (CSS) in place, released in 2009, that outlines a whole-of-government cyber security policy, but Inquiry submissions indicate that ...

MySuper flips members out of millions: CSSA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
MySuper may be leaving some disengaged members with much lower life insurance cover thanks to a new form of 'flipping', the Corporate Super Specialists' Alliance (CSSA) has warned. The practice of flipping members from less expensive corporate super ...

CBA, CSSA promote FoFA legal loophole

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
Corporate super specialist advisers have found a legal loophole that could allow them to maintain a business model that has been banned under the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. The loophole, as described by Commonwealth Bank of Australia ...

Treasury looks at further FoFA amendments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
Treasury is considering confidential proposals to reverse rules that ban conflicted remuneration arrangements for corporate super specialist advisers, according to Douglas Latto, president of the Corporate Super Specialist Alliance (CSSA). Traditionally ...

Corporate super specialists ask Treasury for FoFA exemption

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
The Corporate Super Specialists Alliance (CSSA) is in talks with Treasury after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC ) refused to grant a no-action letter to corporate super specialists. The CSSA made the request for a no-action ...

ASIC warns planners, be careful who you hire

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... which ASIC has previously taken action. ASIC has also recently taken action against Clearing & Settlement Services Pty Ltd (CSS), and Halifax Investment Services Ltd (Halifax). In both cases ASIC singled out failures in supervision and monitoring of ...

Securities dealer scales back after ASIC review

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
Securities dealer Clearing & Settlement Services (CSS) has downsized its operations after the Australian Securities and Investments Commissions (ASIC) found it had failed to comply with conditions of its Australian Financial Services licence (AFSL). ...