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SMSF members still happiest

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... their funds are moving from retail and a to a lesser extent industry funds into SMSFs," said Norman Morris, Roy Morgan Research's industry communications director. Roy Morgan found that the satisfaction gap between industry and retail funds is so pronounced ...

SG High Court challenge lost

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
... Superannuation Guarantee Charge Act was valid under the constitution has lost in the High Court of Australia. The case, Roy Morgan Research Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation, ultimately found that the Superannuation Guarantee Charge Act (SGCA) and the ...

Retail super fund commissions revealed

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... commissions paid to financial planners where no advice is being provided," said Whiteley. "ISN analysis of Roy Morgan Research suggests more than 2 million Australians are in this boat - paying money for nothing." Under the proposed Future of Financial ...

FOFA divides on commission

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... feature of our compulsory super system," said David Whiteley, ISN chief executive. Whiteley echoed recent Roy Morgan research, which found some 60% of super fund members have never used a financial planner, with ISN estimating three million Australians ...

Older people seek more financial advice

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... women, latest figures show. The Superannuation and Wealth Management in Australia report, released last week by Roy Morgan Research, also surveyed respondents about their use of financial planners. The results were striking. Of those aged 65 and over ...

Big six use advisers for sales while clients confused on independence

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... to direct the majority of the funds they establish to their parent fund manager, a study released today by Roy Morgan Research has found. The Superannuation and Wealth Management in Australia report found the product funneling trend was largely unchanged ...

OnePath arms planners with post FOFA program

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... confidence in financial advice is a high priority for many in the industry. According to recent figures from Roy Morgan Research, 66% of Australians that have superannuation have not started planning for retirement, including more than one million in ...

Advisers missing retirement planning bonanza

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... clients' retirement outcomes. But this potential is being undermined by planners themselves as, according to the Roy Morgan research, only 12 per cent of super fund members who use a financial planner have regular communication contact with their planner ...

Customers rate SMSFs the best

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... satisfaction with the performance of their funds, compared to customers of the Big Six Retail Funds," noted the Roy Morgan Research report. "After the global financial crisis satisfaction with the superannuation performance, as would be expected, declined ...

Super future hangs on High Court decision

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... destroy a major plank of superannuation legislation, an industry body said today. Market research company Roy Morgan Research has challenged the ATO, saying the super guarantee charge is not a tax and the Federal Government has no right to impose it ...