Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 9181 - 9190 of 18128 results for "superannuation"

Consumers need super default safety net: ISA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
Consumers need the protection of a default superannuation fund safety net despite calls for deregulation to increase competition, Industry Super Australia (ISA) said. The body representing some industry super funds argued that efforts to deploy competitive ...

Retail funds still unable to match industry fund popularity

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
Industry superannuation funds remain unbeaten when it comes to member satisfaction with their financial performance, a Roy Morgan survey confirms. Industry funds have been ahead of retail funds every month since the Roy Morgan Single Source survey began ...

Super tax subs worth $30bn in 2014

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... the Senate battle to pass its 2014-15 Budget, Treasury has released its Tax Expenditures statement showing that superannuation tax subsidies are still one of the most expensive areas of the Budget. Superannuation costs included in the Tax Expenditure ...

Financial services companies owe consumers $15m compensation

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... Unpaid determinations represent about 30% of all determinations in the categories of investments, life insurance and superannuation. Of these 69% relate to disputes in the financial planning sector. The figures represent a 4% increase from the September ...

Profile: MTAA Super chief executive Leeanne Turner

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
Leeanne Turner's lifelong career in superannuation came about by accident. Growing up near Canberra, she had initially thought she'd like to be a teacher. But like many 20-year-olds, she decided to put that off for a while and travel to Europe. To do ...

Industry fund brands stronger than retail

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015
... CoreData shows. CoreData's Super Fund Brand Research Q4 2014 asked more than 2,000 Australians to rate the largest 23 superannuation funds by members on key brand aspects that aim to measure a fund's overall brand strength. Respondents were asked to ...

APRA-ABS super surveys to commence Jan 2016

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... too much compliance burden on super funds and have announced that only RSEs managing more than $200 million in superannuation assets will need to answer these specific surveys. The survey responses will also not need to be audited and only quarterly ...

Asset owners throwing money away in hidden fees

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... focus squarely on cost in both its interim and final reports. Chairman David Murray and his committee said that superannuation fees are still too high and put the onus on the entire financial services industry to bring them down." Novarca won business ...

Boutique corporate super realigns following MySuper

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... growing segment over the year rising 14% followed by Investment pltaforms FUA rising 10% and Personal and Corporate superannuation platform FUA both growing 6%. While each sector experienced a significant slowdown in growth during the 12 month period ...

Smarter Money Investments added to BT Wrap

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... BT Wrap Platform and is now available on six other platforms for advisers and their clients inside and outside superannuation. The Yellow Brick Road (YBR) funds management business rebranded to SMI in September 2014. In 2014 SMI's active cash strategy ...