System Inquiry News Today

Australians are good at accumulating savings for retirement but they are not so good at mapping out the best way to spend their savings once they retire.

ASIC has proposed a five-year extension to the design and distribution obligations (DDO), the instrument for which was originally set for a two-year period.

Aussie bank hybrids are showing resilience in the face of recent events, but investors are learning that the search for yield is a reach for risk.

Lobbyist and pollster C|T Group, founded by political operatives Lynton Crosby and Mark Textor, is running focus groups on superannuation for the Financial Services Council.

Charities and the government want to deploy some of the $3.3 trillion in superannuation assets to social infrastructure such as housing. But roadblocks remain.

Following 2014 recommendations that LRBAs should be prohibited, the latest CFR report has massively downgraded their risk — mostly.

The industry association has endorsed the regulatory bodys findings on supposed risks associated with LBRA activities. Earlier this month, the Council of Financial Regulators (CFR) — made up of th

The government wants to enshrine an “objective of superannuation” into law. But will the push once again fall victim to the culture wars?

Research from the Council of Financial Regulators has further backed up its findings from three years ago that Limited Recourse Borrowing Arrangements in SMSFs could pose a significant risk to individual retirement savings.

A ‘council of elders’ should preside over the process to legislate an objective for superannuation, experts said.