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Performance, fees still major retention risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013
... for industry funds changing employers is the biggest risk to retention, reveals the latest Roy Morgan Research's superannuation and wealth management report. Dissatisfaction with performance and fees was, however, also a major factor with industry fund ...

HESTA and Cbus take AIST top awards

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013
HESTA and Cbus have received the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) top awards for 2013. Hesta won three awards including the Platinum Communication Award for the second year in a row for a new digital member card campaign. HESTA's ...

Government to discuss alternative funding for LISC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... has indicated that it may be open to finding other sources of funding to prevent the scrapping of the low income superannuation contribution (LISC). Industry bodies including Industry Super Australia (ISA), the Association of Superannuation Funds of ...

SMSF regulation to remain 'light touch': Sinodinos

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
The regulation of self-managed super funds (SMSFs) is unlikely to change much under the Abbott government, according to Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos. The speedy growth of the SMSF sector has led some commentators to question whether the Australian ...

ASIC concerned about PDS font size, consumer warnings

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... regulator has addressed the issue by updating Information Sheet 155 Shorter PDSs: Complying with requirements for superannuation products and simple managed investment schemes. The updated version establishes that font size in the primary document must ...

The Trust Company makes key super appointments

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
The Trust Company has appointed three managers that will oversee the company's superannuation relationships on the same day that shareholders voted in favour of the Perpetual buyout offer. The new appointments are an answer to the Stronger Super legislation ...

Government targets super in awards, board independence

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... set to follow through on its plan to introduce a quota of independent directors on super fund boards, and to take superannuation out of modern awards, following the release of a discussion paper by Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos. Speaking at a ...

Former Goldman Sachs exec to head REST in-house equities team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
Former Goldman Sachs head of equity strategy Chris Pidcock will head up REST Industry Super's new in-house Australian equities investment team, REST chief executive Damian Hill has said. Pidcock, who left Goldman Sachs in 2012 after 23 years, will head ...

MySuper authorisations nears 100

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013
... Mercer's SmartPath and Russell's MySuper authorisations are now in place meaning that more than 95% of the corporate superannuation master trust market is now covered by the new regime. But while government and industry super funds and corporate master ...

Ripoll rips into Abbott government's 'amateurism'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013
... Labor's SuperTICK initiative is "laughable and outrageous", according to Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Bernie Ripoll. Ripoll's comments were in response to a media release sent out by Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos' ...