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Budget to pave the way for better advice: Stammer

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2006
Treasurer Costello's 11th Budget will force 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 ...

Boomer Budget bonanza

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2006
The 11th Costello Budget, drawing almost universal praise from the superannuation industry, is tailor made to boost savings from lackluster boomers while its red tape reductions should see advisers get back to actually being advisers. "ASFA's calls ...

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
IFSA has panned a Government task force's proposal to reduce super contributions, a move that may leave working women and casual employees without any superannuation contributions, contributing to widening inequality. Echoing the message sent by Association ...

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
Despite super fund consolidation and apparent increasing market competition, Australian superannuation leaders have yet to confront why the number of super fund accounts is still climbing by more than one million each year. According to the just released ...

Ten days or less to act on requests: ASFA

Super funds should take action within 10 days of receiving requests to 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 ...

Tax reform calls often about welfare not tax: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2006
Even before the Government's 400 page Tax Inquiry report has been printed, the Treasurer is working hard to manage the expectations coming out of it. In an interview yesterday on SKY, Treasurer Peter Costello said that the real debate is not so much ...

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 ...