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08 July 2013 • By Chris Kennedy • 1 min read

Adviser education on the national agenda

A prestigious education grant has been awarded to a finance educator for the first time, showing the government is now taking a keen interest in the ...

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MySuper counter to financial literacy: CSSA

The federal government’s MySuper reforms are a “reactive” approach to superannuation which will see financial literacy assessments taken out of the ...

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Big banks missing super opportunities

The big four are missing superannuation opportunities, with a large majority of existing customers who could have their super with their bank ...

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Regulatory reforms 'timely' for MTAA Super

MTAA Super has done an “awful lot of work” to improve its governance processes in the last two and a half years, and the reforms contained in Stronger ...

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Self-education cap conflicts with increased requirements

Ongoing increases in licensing and education requirements are at odds with the government’s decision to cap the deductibility of self-education ...

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Industry funds face technological challenge

Big banks have a technological advantage over industry super funds when it comes to providing targeted information to a more demanding generation, ...

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Key super measures deferred

With significant parts of the Future of Financial Advice changes deferred for a year in the final legislation, industry has also been given an extra ...

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Xplan ups market share but Midwinter leads ratings

Financial planning software provider IRESS now controls more than half the market following the migration of VisiPlan and AdviserCentral users, while ...

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MTAA accepts super disclosure – in principle

Superannuation funds are not thrilled by the idea of disclosing their investment holdings to their members, but they readily concede that increased ...

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ASFA backs account consolidation, reiterates data concerns

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has supported measures to consolidate inactive super accounts, while reiterating calls ...

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