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Ending super gender gap needs collective approach

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
... superannuation contributions for their female employees are some of Rice Warner's proposals. In its report 'Superannuation account balances by age and gender', the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said: "The data indicates that ...

NAB and FPA back super in PPL

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
... concessional contributions to enable workers with broken employment patterns to maximise their superannuation account balances. Other major proposals from NAB include simplifying the rules on claiming a tax deduction for financial advice; considering ...

Policies can adjust super tax concessions: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... considered as part of the tax discussion paper process. By analysing distribution and magnitude of high superannuation account balances, the ASFA report found there are more than 200,000 people who have superannuation account balances in excess of $1 ...

Solve super tax inequity, says Murray

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... cap, and better targeted contribution tax concessional; and second, an additional earnings tax on superannuation account balances above a certain limit. The report also recommended aligning the tax treatment of super across both accumulation and drawdown ...

FSC denounces lost super threshold rise

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... Services Council (FSC) has denounced the government's plan to raise the threshold at which inactive superannuation account balances can be transferred to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). Currently, inactive account balances of under $2000 can be ...

Market plunge exposes system weakness: Cooper

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
Friday's 4% stock market fall, which caused more than $20 billion to be wiped from superannuation account balances, further exposed Australia's over reliance on equities in retirement, said Jeremy Cooper, Challenger's chairman, retirement incomes. Superannuation ...

Ministers backed to raise super contribution

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... generate enough super savings during their careers to live off in retirement. "In general, ministers' superannuation account balances are lower than those in other professions with most ministers not having a specific retirement age, rather moving from ...

Dealer groups miss commissions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... cases where people were charged for insurance they did not need, including children with negative superannuation account balances. Research house Rice Warner has said 26 per cent of dormant superannuation accounts have active life insurance policies ...

Angel in the detail: Cooper's cost cutting measures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... rollovers. But where he received a round of applause was in the proposal to change the rules on superannuation account balances of less than $1,000, potentially abolishing the current 'member benefit protection' regime. At present, super funds are legally ...

Super escapes budget knives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... strategies rather than waiting until the last few years before they retire to fast track their superannuation account balances. The decision to gently increase the retirement age to 67 years is receiving a similar reception, despite the policy being ...