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Budget to pave the way for better advice: Stammer

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2006
... financial advisers to focus on investments rather than taxes, attendees at an Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA) lunch were told yesterday. In his 26th ASFA post-Budget speech, leading economist and academic, Don Stammer, welcomed Costello's ...

Boomer Budget bonanza

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2006
... boost savings from lackluster boomers while its red tape reductions should see advisers get back to actually being advisers. "ASFA's calls for greater adequacy and simplification have been heard. We are delighted," said ASFA chief executive Philippa ...

ASFA and JUST Super call for changes in the Budget

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2006
The Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA) has called for an expansion of the co-contribution scheme and an abolition of age-based contribution limits, with JUST Super supporting ASFA's stance against a proposal to reduce employer contributions. ...

Proposed super cut will widen inequality for women: IFSA

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2006
... contributions, contributing to widening inequality. Echoing the message sent by Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief executive officer, Philippa Smith, last week, Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) chief executive ...

ASFA slams proposal to cut super

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2006
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has slammed a Government task force suggestion to cut employer super contributions, a move it says will drastically reduce part-time and contract workers' superannuation savings. The proposal ...

30 million super accounts and climbing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2006
... super funds to dramatically lift their game in this litmus test area of client service. Reflecting this, at least in part, ASFA have just released guidelines to their member super funds about speeding up super choice transfers between funds. But the ...

Ten days or less to act on requests: ASFA

... transfer superannuation benefits, according to guidelines just released by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). ASFA has released a best practice paper called "Transfer, Rollover and Cashing of Benefits", which states that requests ...

Tax reform calls often about welfare not tax: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2006
... at 8 per cent per annum, nearly triple inflation, while super fund taxes are growing at 10 per cent per annum. Meanwhile, ASFA has just released its own analysis that suggests retirement taxes in Australia are among the highest in the world.

Super choice information overload

ASFA celebrated Valentine's Day this year with the message that super choice has been a non-event that has lead to information overload. This is despite ASFA's own research revealing that already nearly one in 10 fund members are likely to exercise ...

One-tenth of employees to opt for super choice in just year one: ASFA

The latest Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) survey on the impact of choice of fund has shown that 4 per cent of survey respondents have already exercised choice, with another 5 per cent likely to follow in the next year. "The ...