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 The other 99 per centThe frenzy around super funds setting up member direct options will be a good thing if it results in improved services across the board, upgraded online ... We the people ... who are fund membersIf even Australia's federal Labor Party can hold a public ballot to elect their national leader it might be time to ask when democracy is going to come ... CPA's super report: the verdictCPA 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 ... Consumers behaving badlyConsumers have an uncanny knack of not doing as they're told and the sooner businesses - financial services and superannuation included - accept this ... MySuper's ticking time bombWith 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 ... Talk about retirement but intelligentlyNow 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 ... Enemy withinAustralianSuper 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 ... When superannuation became a bloodsportTwo 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 ... Hockey the one to watchIt may be a surprise to his critics, but Joe Hockey, shadow treasurer, has emerged as the intellectual leader of the Coalition and financial services ... Fund members aren't freeloadersIn one of the most moronic statements yet about superannuation, super fund members who take advantage of their fund's insurance offer have been blasted ... |
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DANIEL SHRIMSKI
MANAGING DIRECTOR
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MANAGING DIRECTOR
VANGUARD INVESTMENTS AUSTRALIA LTD
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