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SelectingSuper award nominees announced

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
... products have been shortlisted for the Rainmaker SelectingSuper awards being held in Melbourne on 21 November. The 30 superannuation groups represent 60 separate superannuation products across the workplace, personal, retirement and self-managed super ...

ISA and FSC at odds over super tax changes

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
... Financial Services Council (FSC), however, welcomed the decision, saying it would return "certainty and stability to superannuation policy". "The former government's $100,000 earnings tax on superannuation was rushed, complex and frankly, unworkable," ...

Mercer picks Milestone's APRA reporting solution

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
... part of the Stronger Super reforms. The new reporting standards have seen a massive increase in the amount of data superannuation funds must provide to regulators, posing significant technical challenges in collating data from investment managers, custodians ...

Cochrane picks up FSS board role

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
Former REST Superannuation chief executive Neil Cochrane is set to become chairman of the First State Super (FSS) Trustee Corporation (FTC) board, after the departure of Thomas Parry in 2014. Parry, who has provided 14 years of service to the FTC will ...

NFP funds turning to direct investment options in droves

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
The large majority of industry superannuation funds are looking to add direct investment options (DIOs) to their service offerings with some even considering opening the service to non-members through separate legal structures according to Lonsec Fiscal ...

Life insurance faces worst conditions in decades

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... integrating the wealth businesses within Australia's banking sector remains a challenge." Lower margins from new superannuation and wealth products and continued competition have challenged shareholder returns in the wealth and insurance sectors in recent ...

WA Local Government Super rebrands, gets MySuper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... a MySuper licence. Individuals should be aware of these changes so they can execute their right to align with a superannuation fund that best suits their needs." Catania said WA Super, which has funds under management of over $2 billion, prides itself ...

Super funds 'fair game' for activist scrutiny

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... businesses - such as armaments and fossil fuels - may be forced to justify their positions. Speaking at an audience of superannuation trustees hosted by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) Lewis said that activists rather than ...

Tyndall AM joins forces with large UK fund house

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013

Fund returns dip to 15pct

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
The SelectingSuper Workplace rolling 12 month default option index dipped during September, but at 15.1% for the year ended 30 September 2013 they are still at near three year highs. Rainmaker, the researcher that conducts surveys of fund performance ...