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No new taxes on super welcomed

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... 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 not to make ...

Age pension kept at highest indexation rate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... 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 make tough decisions ...

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
... 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 association which ...

Mercer launches retirement income strategy test

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... against criteria we know is important for retirees," he said. Mercer acknowledged the benefit of universal yardsticks such as ASFA's Retirement Standards, but believes its absolute nature makes it inherently unable to account for the subjective nature ...

Robo advice questions still unanswered

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... 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 cost reduction point of ...

Industry responds to Grattan report

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... the government to scrap it so they can increase their market share and profits," he added. Speaking to Financial Standard, ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos said that although the report was intended to decry Australia's overly expensive super system ...

ALP outlines superannuation tax policy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... 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 are earning tax-free ...

Funds wrestling with liquidity problem

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... 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 in bank debt, Neal was ...

Policies can adjust super tax concessions: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... 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 contributions and different tax ...