Superannuation industry


Dirty secrets of the retail super industry

ANZ’s purchase of the remainder of ING, and new rumblings about ANZ or another major acquiring AMP, shine a light on one of the dirty secrets of the retail superannuation industry: how much control the banks have.

A super way to open up the mortgage sector

Commonwealth Bank and Westpac and their subsidiaries now control over 85% of all new mortgages. Adam Barker suggests a way to break the banks’ stranglehold.

Superannuation, not quite scrapping commissions

How fair dinkum is the retail superannuation industry about unhooking itself from commissions? asks Bernard Keane.