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Super tax reform on hold for election

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... four years." Bowen added that current superannuation tax concession arrangements are unfair to Australia's low income workers and unfair to Australia's women. "The current concession arrangements actually cost females in the bottom decile over $32,000 ...

Maritime Super appoints NAS as custodian

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... years. NAS will provide custodial and investment administrative services to the $5 billion industry fund for maritime workers. Maritime Super chief executive Peter Robertson, said NAS has been a committed partner of the fund supporting them through a ...

Super law changes "political suicide"

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... workforce." He noted that an increasing number of Australian citizens will work abroad in different tax jurisdictions, while workers from other countries will come in to Australia to do the same. Because of this, he said there was a growing opportunity ...

Scrapping LISC was shameful and retrograde: Bowen

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... red tape for companies willing to positively discriminate women by increasing the superannuation contribution for female workers. Bowen also mentioned the possibility of setting up joint superannuation accounts, an option currently available for self-managed ...

LUCRF defends political campaign allegations

MARK SMITH, DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... Co-operative Retirement Fund (LUCRF) has responded to allegations that it paid thousands of dollars to a National Union of Workers fund, IR21, to finance political campaigns. Reports in News Ltd papers have claimed the industry super fund's purchase ...

British Airways to clash in court with pension trustee

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... British Airways is taking one of its pension fund's trustees to court over increases in payments to the airline's retired workers. At the heart of the case, which will be heard next February, is the cloudy relationship between the trustee and the entity ...

Pillar Administration to operate under Acurity software

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... designed to have people to be able to process things quickly. We're now exception based and Pillar now has more knowledge workers than processing people," Mackley said. Financial Synergy is dedicating a team for the project at Pillar Administration's ...

Australians are hardly retirement ready

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... lifetimes and less time to achieve adequate retirement savings. "Recent research found almost three quarters of older workers across Australia are willing to stay in the workforce for longer and 61% cited financial security as the major reason older ...

Cbus opposes smaller super guarantee penalties

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... non-compliant with their super guarantee obligations. "This problem is getting bigger and is having an increasing impact on workers superannuation balances and, therefore, on government revenues," Atkin said. "Superannuation is the deferred wages of ...

PROFILE: SSGA head of Investment Solutions Group Mark Wills

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... explains. His first job in asset management was with New South Wales State Super, the superannuation scheme for NSW government workers. "I learned to do basically what I do now. I ran a balanced portfolio where we had bonds, equities and cash." After ...