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Super squabble beyond the joke: Taxpayers Australia

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... self-managed superannuation funds," Taxpayers Australia superannuation products and services manager Reece Agland said. "Competition between funds and fund sectors is good for members. It should drive down costs and focus attention on getting them better ...

ISA proposes new restrictions on retail super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden also spoke at the event, arguing that ISA's proposed measures would "restrict competition and cement [industry funds'] monopoly position in industrial awards." Whiteley's speech focused on the role of the Fair ...

AFA presents renewed strategy and Narrative

LAURA MILLAN  |  SUNDAY, 12 OCT 2014
... voice on policy issues and be better at engaging with the community. Fox said that the AFA would investigate market competition and a variety of business models. "Participation in a healthy market should be growing, not shrinking," he said, and added ...

AMP University Challenge winners revealed

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... A team from Griffith University in Queensland has won the AMP University Challenge, a national financial planning competition for university students who want to find out more about being a financial planner. The event was held in Sydney and attracted ...

Enter AFA's best tweet competition

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... of Financial Advisers (AFA) is putting social front and centre at the AFA 2014 National Adviser Conference with a competition for "best" tweeters. Conference delegates have the chance to win "best tweet of the day" and "best tweet of the conference" ...

MySuper hurts low balance members: UniSuper CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... using ERFs, even though their members might be better off if they were in one. He put this down to the increasing competition among funds, which will only increase further if super is removed from awards. UniSuper's readiness to roll members out of its ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... market for building products in more than a decade. Foodmaker Goodman Fielder was up 0.5 cents at 62.5 cents after the competition watchdog cleared the way for an Asian consortium to buy the company. On Wall Street overnight, stocks rose in the wake ...

Hockey names infrastructure top priority for G20

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... over the longer term must be earned through policy reforms such as deregulation of trade and labour markets, fairer competition policy, and tax and trade reform." After infrastructure, he said his second priority was to ensure that multinationals pay ...

Client education initiative joins AdviceInnovation

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... platform includes modules, articles, videos, life events, calculators, downloads, quizzes, jargon busters and a regular competition. Innergi's managing director Robert Skinner says the Financial Knowledge Centre is robust, professional and fun, offering ...

Super fees drop as fund war rolls on

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... centre of public debate since David Murray's Financial System Inquiry (FSI) flagged that there is little fee-based competition and that "fees appear high by international standards." But the Rainmaker 2014 Super Fund Fee Survey revealed that fees fell ...