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Industry funds pulled back to the pack

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
New research predicts industry funds are no longer set to dominate the superannuation industry, as COVID-19 changes the race to the top. KPMG's latest Super Insights report shows industry super funds are no longer on track to takeover SMSFs as the biggest ...

Challenger launches new retirement tool

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
Challenger has launched a new tool to help retirees and pre-retirees better understand the financial realities of retirement. The annuity provider has today launched Retire with Confidence, a tool designed to help retirees understand how long their ...

Culture is key in a crisis: Australian Ethical

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
Culture plays the most significant role in risk management during a crisis, according to the chief risk officer of the nearly $4 billion super fund and investment manager. Speaking over the phone for the Governance Institute of Australia's virtual governance ...

Industry funds revise ERS modelling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
Industry Super Australia has been forced to revise the modelling underpinning their calculations of the impact of the government's Early Release Scheme on retirement balances. An ASIC missive caused the peak body for industry superannuation to reconsider ...

Suncorp wealth head departs

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... the bank is anticipating the cost of remediating staff and implementing new processes to prevent the issue reoccurring will land between $40 million and $70 million. "As a Suncorp employee of long standing I am incredibly disappointed that we have let ...

Cbus ready to deploy cash

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... the downturn 6% underweight unlisted assets, after forgoing bidding up on transactions such as Hobart Airport and Victorian Land Titles. Going forward, Fok is breaking down the buying opportunities as immediate, pipeline investments and the bigger role ...

Darwinian time for super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
With COVID-19 rapidly shifting the ground beneath them, only the fittest superannuation funds will survive, according to Hostplus' Paul Watson. Appearing as part of a virtual panel discussing mergers in super, Hostplus group executive member experience ...

Frydenberg amends Corporations Act

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has announced changes to the Corporations Act, in a bid to relieve Australia's public companies from financial stress over the coming months. The changes, enacted from May 5, allow companies to hold virtual Annual General Meetings ...

Unemployment already over 15%: Roy Morgan

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
April unemployment data released by Roy Morgan today paints a far gloomier picture of Australia's workforce than the Australian Bureau of Statistics' latest data from March. Roy Morgan found 15.3% of the workforce (2.16 million people) were unemployed ...

Financial services boards overpaid: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... Macquarie and NAB, while the report also revealed Macquarie director Gordon Cairns as the best paid non-executive director in the land, owing to the $1.8 million he earns across his directorships at Woolworths, Origin Energy and Macquarie.