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Super funds convene with assistant treasurer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024
... Council (SMC) met with assistant treasurer Stephen Jones to explore strategies for bolstering customer service. Industry super funds, in collaboration with the SMC, initiated a roundtable discussion last week with Jones, focusing on how the government ...

Super funds in pole position for expanded advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2024
... government implements its proposal to expand financial advice. This is according to industry experts who say that super funds are in good stead to bolster the availability and affordability of "simple personal advice" as part of the Delivering Better ...

Super tax is a 'wealth tax': Taylor

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024
... informed options, and the advice and adviser network to deliver the very best outcomes in retirement. Self-managed super funds are an integral part of that choice," he said. "Self-managed super was a key component of the original practice legislated ...

Reforms will strengthen retirement advice: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
... Jones revealed the first two tranches of the QAR reforms. The second phase proposes opening financial advice to banks, super funds, and insurers. On the point that accountants appear to be missing from the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes proposed ...

Risk, compliance staff in hot demand

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
... scrutiny via Your Future, Your Super are driving demand for risk and compliance talent. Ongoing consolidation among super funds and sustained growth in funds management, particularly alternative managers, are also driving demand, she said. However, despite ...

QIC, super funds pour more into Queensland space tech

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
QIC, Hostplus and HESTA are among backers to invest a further $55 million into Gold Coast-based Gilmour Space Technologies. Gilmour recently completed a Series D funding round, aimed at raising capital to support the manufacture, test and launch of ...

Aussies do not underspend in retirement, say super funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
... contributions to a retirement phase super account. It added that, with member consent, the government should notify super funds about members' eligibility for pensions and other government support, like the Age Pension, so funds can tailor information ...

Aussies want control of nest eggs: FSC

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024
... 'one-size-fits-all' solutions onto members at retirement," he said. The poll also revealed members' expectations from super funds - which is to prioritise generating competitive investment returns (38%) followed by low-income earners who ...

Superannuation fund returns underperformed SMSFs: Research

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2024
Investment returns for APRA-regulated superannuation funds lagged self-managed super funds (SMSFs) by 4.1% in the 2021-22 financial year, according to the University of Adelaide. During this period, while the S&P/ASX 200 index declined by more than ...

Jailed adviser permanently banned by ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2024
... 2023, Mark Raymond Sebo was found guilty of misappropriating $1,056,685.18 from some of his clients' self-managed super funds. Between July and August 2019, he was found to have used all the money to feed his gambling habit. At the time, he was sole ...