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Industry fund seeks volatility overlay mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
... options, keeping it simple and without credit risk. He said the firm would continue to work fiercely in pursuit of more super fund and institutional mandates for equity risk mitigation. Aside from the institutional attention, Ho said financial advisers ...

Super funds must do better digitally

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
... order to very easily address the smaller super funds, but we will also be approaching those bigger super funds. The more super funds we partner with the richer our data set becomes, so it becomes a self-fulfilling network effect where the value just ...

REST boosts member savings through Acorns app

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2016
... the scale it otherwise wouldn't have if Acorns signed a similar deal with a smaller outfit. It is highly likely that more super funds would follow suit if REST gets better membership engagement through the savings app. According to Rainmaker research ...

Budgets with more super tinkering are possible

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
Westpac chief economist Bill Evans warns superannuation funds that further tinkering of the system at Budget time is not beyond the realms of possibilities. As federal politicians become further engrossed in "fixing the Budget" the chief economist reckons ...

MORE Super switches to Simple Fund 360

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
Independent SMSF administrator MORE Super will move the administration of its 5,000 SMSFs from BGL's Simple Fund Desktop to Simple Fund 360. "We compared alternate cloud based SMSF administration solutions and whilst Simple Fund 360 was not the first ...

Super gap concerns plaguing over 50s

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... retire with $192,000 more than their female counterparts. Survey data found that 43% of men believe they are holding more super than their partners and that one in five Australian's expect to have less than $100,000 in savings when they retire. Fifty-six ...

Extra features not always beneficial for super funds

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... account flexibility, allowing funds to build a more sophisticated package. Dunnin said while it's a good thing that more super funds are offering more features, the core job of all super funds is delivering strong and consistent investment returns. "Funds ...

Survey shows people struggling to put more super away

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
Australians believe now is a good time to pay off debt and top-up their super but many say they can't afford to put money away after living expenses, according to a new survey by MLC. The latest MLC Wealth Sentiment Survey also shows that 50% of Australians ...

Choice of super fund won't always work: REST

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016
... wholesale funds management businesses, superannuation funds, life insurers, and financial advisory networks, supports more super fund choice. It said institutional links between super funds with equal representation boards and trade unions gives rise ...

Paying women more super not the answer

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
Senator Jenny McAllister believes many people don't feel comfortable with the idea of paying women more superannuation as a government response to fix the gender retirement savings gap. McAllister, who chairs the Senate enquiry in to economic security ...