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Showing 321 - 330 of 2019 results for "Legislation"

Performance test expansion paused as government announces review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2022
... of MySuper performance tests have taken place by August this year. The government will also release exposure draft legislation for consultation to implement its election commitment to adjust the performance test for faith-based products. The impact of ...

July 1 super changes: Are you ready?

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2022
... super. Here's what you need to know. From tomorrow, significant changes to superannuation and its surrounding legislation will come into effect. Perhaps most important of all, From July 1 employers will need to increase the Superannuation Guarantee ...

Retirement Income Covenant a win for advisers - but for how long?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2022
... Retirement Income Covenant requires superannuation trustees to design a strategy for catering to retiree members. Under the legislation, these strategies must help members achieve and balance three key goals: maximising expected retirement income, managing ...

Super funds are ready for RIC: Data

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2022
... CoreData, Australian super funds are ready to publish the retirement income strategies needed to comply with the new legislation. The research accessed super funds' readiness to meet the deadline and requirements of RIC legislation and was commissioned ...

NSW to introduce options for first home buyers

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2022
... planning, supply, or working with the Commonwealth - to give more people in NSW the opportunity to own their own home." Legislation to establish the property tax will be introduced during the second half of 2022 with eligible first home buyers able to ...

You can't have it all: Retirement income strategies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
... greater availability of retirement income products is a positive, the three objectives of these products as set out in legislation don't necessarily reflect members needs or desires. Appearing on a panel at the Australian Institute of Superannuation ...

Super industry levies insufficiently detailed: ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2022
... concerning the super industry. Just as the super industry faced increased scrutiny from the Your Future, Your Super legislation, ASFA submitted that a higher level of examination should apply with respect to the costs recovered from the industry via ...

Active Super, Vision Super mull merger

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2022
... noted that crossing state boundaries may create state constitutional issues that would most likely require special legislation.

Systemic disadvantages create retirement insecurity: HESTA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022
... in its support for the application of UNDRIP principles. "We are calling on federal and state governments to create legislation aligned with UNDRIP that will provide investors certainty about the level of human rights-based risk at companies in which ...

ASFA, Deloitte recommend group insurance changes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2022
... protection claimants who access these services would return to work where they otherwise wouldn't have. Super and health legislation currently prevents insurers from providing medical treatment to rehabilitate members and financial payments must be for ...