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No new taxes on super welcomed

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... leave new taxes on super out of the 2015 budget but say there is further consultation ahead. Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief executive, Pauline Vamos, said the community will be happy to see the government has kept its promise ...

Age pension kept at highest indexation rate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... providing and boosting the income of Australian retirees for decades to come," Garcia said. Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief executive, Pauline Vamos, said the federal government was faced with growing debt and needed to ...

Too many adviser associations: ASFA

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) argued that there should be a single adviser association. Noting its "concerns" about multiple associations, ASFA said in a submission to Treasury that the current situation creates "unnecessary ...

Banking and super groups back parliamentary recommendations

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... establishment and initial operating expenses of a new independent body to allow quick progress. Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has supported individual advisers being required to be members of "a properly authorised professional ...

Robo advice questions still unanswered

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... financial robo advice models yet industry heads say many questions remain unanswered. At a recent Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) forum, Mercer Innovation Hub leader Jo-Anne Bloch said robo advice makes sense from a company's ...

Advisers Register hits 22k

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... also be an added functionality allowing the change of details more readily. Speaking at an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia event in Sydney, Kell said there had been more than 60,000 searches on the Financial Advisers Register. "The register ...

Industry responds to Grattan report

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
Industry Super Australia and the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia have responded to the latest Grattan report on superannuation fees. In a statement, ISA chief executive David Whiteley said the report served as further evidence of bank-owned ...

ALP outlines superannuation tax policy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... opinion piece Bowen wrote in News Limited media on 11 April citing a research report from the Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA). In the piece he highlighted that there are 475 people with super balances in excess of $10 million who ...

Funds wrestling with liquidity problem

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... investments available for institutional investors to deploy their vast amounts of cash. Asked at an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) Investment Interchange in Sydney last month whether he was comfortable with the level of investment ...

Policies can adjust super tax concessions: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia believes there are policies the federal government could implement promptly to adjust superannuation tax concessions. ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos said lifetime caps on concessional and non-concessional ...