 Alex Dunnin Executive Director, Research & Compliance, Financial Standard (at time of writing)
ALEX DUNNIN | TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013 CPA Australia put out a report last week calling for new laws to clamp down on superannuation benefit payment rules, but it's hard to say if the report was a winner or what was it's objective. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013 Consumers have an uncanny knack of not doing as they're told and the sooner businesses - financial services and superannuation included - accept this the better. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013 With five months until default contributions can no longer be paid into a super fund unless it has a MySuper option and given there are only 52 funds so far with MySuper authorisation, the employer superannuation market as we know it today may have ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013 Now that the dust has settled on the government's April superannuation policy debacle when it tried to reform the taxation structure that applied to high range retirement income streams it's time to reflect on what might be the major lessons from those ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013 AustralianSuper caused a mild stir early this year with its proclamation that it wants to ramp up the proportion of its assets it self manages to about one-third. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013 Two adventurers are trekking through the jungle when they inadvertently walk too close to a sleeping alpha lion. As the lion starts to stir one of them calmly puts down his backpack, forages for his running shoes and quietly begins taking off his heavy ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013 It may be a surprise to his critics, but Joe Hockey, shadow treasurer, has emerged as the intellectual leader of the Coalition and financial services insiders who think he's going to be a soft touch should the coalition win the September election and ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013 In one of the most moronic statements yet about superannuation, super fund members who take advantage of their fund's insurance offer have been blasted as "freeloaders". Read more ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012 Policy arguments in superannuation can sometimes be bizarre but the zaniest one now doing the rounds is that it's inappropriate to judge super funds on their returns because flexibility of benefit payments is the endgame. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012 By 26 January 1808, the colony's 'exclusives' had had enough and launched Australia's first and only military coup, seizing political power at gunpoint from Governor William Bligh. Read more |
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DANIEL SHRIMSKI
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