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PROFILE: Bernie Ripoll

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
As the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) debate rages on, Shadow Financial Services and Superannuation Minister Bernie Ripoll looks back at its inception. Laura Millan A reports. At the beginning, the future of financial advice was in the hands of Bernie ...

ASIC eyes fee for service funding model

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
... include a competition objective. It proposes measures to encourage product providers to increase the choice of superannuation products, to lift standards in financial advice and to implement penalties that provide incentives for better conduct. Read ...

AstuteWheel launch estate planning tool

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... (companies, trusts, self-managed super funds...) and finally they introduce the assets and liabilities, including superannuation and insurance policies. The system produces a snapshot so clients visualise which assets are part of the estate planning ...

APRA requests more decision-making power

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... increased independence from government. APRA's submission argues that it needs more freedom to regulate the banking, superannuation and life insurance industries without interference from the government or parliament. The prudential regulator claimed ...

Vision Super names new CIO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... said. "Michael will make a major contribution to our goal of growing both the super fund and the Vision Pooled Superannuation Trust (VPST), a superannuation product that has attracted two other industry fund clients." Vision Super has more than 100,000 ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... iPad app. In the latest edition of Financial Standard, we look at misconceptions over the size of self-managed superannuation Fund (SMSF) viability. We also look at the UK government's decision to introduce 'pension choice' and how this may affect the ...

Viable SMSF size underestimated

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
The size at which a self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) becomes a viable alternative to regular funds may be considerably higher than the industry currently estimates due to the impact of scale on performance. The industry typically advises that ...

ISA attacks financial 'short-termism'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
A tendency to take a short-term approach to investment is leading to a "destruction of fundamental value" and declining levels of investment to GDP outside the mining sector, according to Industry Super Australia (ISA). In its submission to the Financial ...

Industry fund claims experience worse than retail: PWC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
The claims experience at industry superannuation funds has deteriorated in recent months and is now worse than in retail funds, PriceWaterhouseCoopers partner Barry Rafe said. Speaking at the Financial Services Council 2014 Life Insurance Conference ...

Plato partners Milliman to offer retiree income solution

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... will allow them to maintain higher weightings to growth assets whilst managing the risk of a GFC-style shock. Many superannuation funds see "lifecycle" strategies, which progressively de-risk investments as members approach retirement, as the answer ...