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Super reforms finalised by year's end

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2016
... and according to Morrison, "will make the superannuation system fairer, more flexible and more sustainable." "The majority of Australians - 96% of individuals with superannuation - will either be better off or unaffected as a result of these changes. ...

Poll provides fresh defence against Royal Commission

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
... actively opposed to a royal commission and people who neither support nor oppose a royal commission constitute the majority of those polled, at around 40% of the sample. "People don't believe a royal commission is the right way to go when they understand ...

Reduced contribution cap hurts women, self-employed workers: SMSFA

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2016
... requirements. For different reasons, self-employed workers are in the same boat, as their income tends to fluctuate, with the majority of wealth being accumulated in later years. As a result, Slattery observed, the proposed reduced cap on concessional ...

Dunsford explains backpedal at EGM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
... Conference in Canberra, out-going president Deborah Kent said: "This process shows us that the AFA has the support of the majority of its members through this challenging and difficult time."

Insurance reforms get member support

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
... would have been adopted without the body playing its role. "This process shows us that the AFA has the support of the majority of its members through this challenging and difficult time," said out-going AFA president Deborah Kent. AFA chief executive ...

Majority of active managers underperforming: S&P

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
The majority of active Australian fund managers underperformed their relevant indices in FY16, according to the Mid-Year 2016 S&P Dow Jones Indices Versus Active Funds (SPIVA) Australia Scorecard. The research, issued bi-annually, tracks about 1000 ...

More poor customer outcomes expected: Narev

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
... insurance and other products that are not in the best interests of customers. "I think the experience of the vast majority of the Commonwealth Bank's customers, in all parts of the business, actually attest to the fact that in the vast majority of cases ...

Bragg to leave FSC

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... research, including the FSC's Standard 20, which has delivered stronger governance to superannuation funds by mandating a majority of independent trustees for FSC member funds," she added. "He was also instrumental in initiating the Trowbridge review ...

Passive investors probably not Marxist parasites: MSCI

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... global opportunity set rather than the whole." He noted that if institutional investors just wanted to capture the majority of global equities at market cap weights, they could simply track the MSCI ACWI IMI index; instead they tend to be more specific. ...

Next wave of super legislation rolls in

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
... occurring," Morrison said. "The reforms will make the superannuation system fairer, more flexible and more sustainable. The majority of Australians - 96% of individuals with superannuation - will either be better off or unaffected as a result of these ...