The superannuation industry may bemoan perpetual inquiries but that didn't prevent a frenzied reaction to the Productivity Commission's latest issues paper into how the PC may recommend to government a new way of selecting or allocating employees to ... Read more

There was thinking that defining the objective of superannuation in legislation would fix things. Not so apparently. Read more

As a young high school teacher in country NSW, parent teacher nights were events to dread: "You don't have children do you, Mr Dunnin?" "No," I would answer. "It shows," they would say back to me with a cold glare. Read more

Musician and guitarist Paul Kantner from the iconic San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane once famously said "if you can remember anything about the sixties you weren't really there". Read more

Duncan Storrar did Australia an almighty favour last month. He showed, in the media circus that erupted around him, how dysfunctional is Australia's tax system and how urgent it is we do something to rebalance and fix it before we sink into the fiscal ... Read more

One of the most important yet difficult chal­lenges facing a post-modern superannua­tion fund is how to deliver more financial ad­vice to more people. The size of this challenge is matched only by the equally big fallacy that the way to ... Read more

By now it should be sinking in just how profoundly Treasurer Scott Morrison changed superannuation on budget night. Read more

A quick look at the ABS taxation report illustrates why the taxation blowtorch is being turned on superannuation. Read more

Thanks to the political brinkmanship being played over whether or not the government should call a Royal Commission into Australia's banks, we've had more financial services regulatory reform in the past two weeks than we've had in the past four yea ... Read more

In one of the most spectacular recoveries ever witnessed in Australian financial services history, the regulator ASIC has in an instant transformed from a slow-to-react bureaucracy to one of the most ferocious and fearsome cops on the beat the nation ... Read more