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Low income retirees to feel budget pain

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... changes announced in Tuesday's budget, according to Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). Speaking at ASFA's post-budget briefing in Sydney yesterday, Vamos said that while there was not a great ...

Delay in SG rise 'disappointing', says industry

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... level until 2018, when it will rise at a rate of 0.5% a year until it reaches 12% in 2022. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief executive Pauline Vamos, who has been a vocal proponent of raising the SG sooner rather than ...

'Choice' dashboard, portfolio disclosure delayed to 2015

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... is underlying commercial in confidence information. Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), said, "The product dashboard is an important tool to help people make choices about where they put their ...

Industry asks for long-term, comprehensive approach to Age Pension

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... they will be eligible to receive adequate support from the Age Pension in retirement. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) supported the commission's recommendation that the superannuation preservation age should be set at least ...

Industry responds to super fees study

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... reaffirmed AIST's support of the awards system as a filter for default fund selection. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), which represents all super funds, said that fees were not the only thing to consider. ASFA chief executive ...

Could government issue its own annuities?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... infrastructure, and inflation linked bonds. Most submissions that dealt with this topic - including the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), the Actuaries Institute, UniSuper and Challenger - focused on the need to remove regulatory ...

IPA joins calls for LISC reintroduction

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... include the Financial Planning Association (FPA), the Financial Services Council (FSC), The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and Industry Super Australia (ISA). "We need ...

ASFA and AIST push for tighter regulation of SMSFs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... call for tighter regulation of the self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) sector. Both the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australian (ASFA), which represents all prudentially-regulated super funds, and the Australian Institute of Superannuation ...

Industry heralds government capital recycling plan

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... promised to cover the cost of an extra 15% of state projects that are funded in this way. Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA's) chief executive Pauline Vamos said such a model will help boost superannuation fund investment in infrastructure. ...

Less than 15% meet ASFA standard of retirement savings

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
Less than 15% of Australians aged 40 to 64 meet the standard set by Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) for retirement savings, according to a survey by Towers Watson and the University of Melbourne. The research has determined that ...