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Self-doubting Aussies falling short

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
Just one in four Australians has a financial plan, indicating a lack of confidence in dealing with money and investments. This is a key finding of the latest MLC Wealth Sentiment Survey released last week. It also shows that 50% of Australians believe ...

ASIC takes Westpac to court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
... all requirements under a general advice model and has not failed any 'best interest' obligations. It is important Australians have good quality advice, guidance and information in language they can understand. ASIC's interpretation of how general advice ...

Top 10 investment stories in 2016

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
1. AustralianSuper merges investment options In January AustralianSuper closed three investment options and replaced them with two as part of a streamlining process aiming to keep costs low and refocus the fund's investment efforts. The industry super ...

Fintech grows through adviser platform

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... adviser client and low brokerage fees. Macrovue officially launched its consumer platform in September, providing Australians with easy and transparent access to global equity markets via themes or "vues". Both SMSFs and direct investors have been early ...

Insurance in super must be maintained: AIA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
Insurer AIA says communicating the importance and value of life insurance is vital for all Australians and the latest parliamentary inquiry is another opportunity to do so. Reaffirming its support for life insurance within superannuation, AIA said life ...

Top 10 superannuation stories in 2016

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... through financial advisers. 9. We were wrong about super: FSC chair The superannuation system was sold incorrectly to Australians, according to the Financial Services Council's recently appointed chair Geoff Lloyd. Speaking on a panel at the 2016 FSC ...

Top 10 financial planning stories in 2016

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... financial planners located in metropolitan and regional centres throughout Australia. 6. $1m does not make you rich, Australians say A fifth of those with a household income of $200,000 are living pay-cheque to pay-cheque and having $1 million does not ...

Super headaches from ATO system crash

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... The Australian Taxation Office is working through its worst system outage in recent history, potentially delaying Australians from consolidating or transferring their superannuation before Christmas. The outage began on Monday 12 December, and as of ...

Link completes AustralianSuper transition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
More than two million AustralianSuper members have been successfully transitioned by Link Group onto its aaspire administration platform. Ahead of schedule and under budget, the transition is Link's ninth in the past 14 months and brings the total of ...

REST launches online financial advice

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... appropriate super investment option, but the advice service will be broadened to other areas over time. "For many Australians, investing can be a daunting task and superannuation, which is an important long-term investment, is no exception," REST chief ...