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Life-cycle funds boost retirement income: Mercer

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
Adding a whole of life age-based investment default option to superannuation funds would reduce investment risk and help restore confidence in the Australian super system, according to Mercer's David Anderson. The financial services provider used the ...

More risk checks needed for super fund equities

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
Australian superannuation funds should increase their modeling of liquidity risk of their large cap equities at the manager and portfolio level, said a senior consultant. Since the GFC, Australian super funds have forgotten the cost of liquidity, and ...

Give super fund directors more time: Gonski

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
Future Fund chairman David Gonski is diametrically opposed to frequent re-election of superannuation fund directors. Instead he says that board members' tenures should be structured as three terms of three years or two terms of five years. "Annual re-elections ...

Advisers must gravitate from engagement to guidance: Mercer

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... offer simple, effective advice well in order to succeed, thanks especially to technology, and intra-fund advice in superannuation, said Jo-Anne Bloch, financial advice leader, Mercer. Consumers have always wanted simple feedback, but the industry has ...

Aust Post streamlines Super payments for SMEs

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
Australia Post is about to become the country's first retail network to accept superannuation payments from small businesses (SMEs) for all staff. Available in more than 3,200 post offices Australia-wide, the new Australia Post service is expected to ...

Cloud computing to boost real-time super

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... real-time banking to real-time super, cloud computing adds a new dimension to how fund members can access their superannuation data in the future. This year's annual Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) conference in Sydney played ...

TAL urges trustees to review default insurance benefits

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... insurance benefit? Is a two year income protection benefit period - the most common model across insurance within superannuation - enough? Can and should the superannuation and life insurance industries work together to better link default cover to members' ...

MySuper tranche three clears House of Reps

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... sitting day for the year. Passed yesterday, the Bill contains one of the key components of the Gillard Government's superannuation reform, rules that set out the transition from existing super products to the new framework. After the Bill passed yesterday ...

ASFA Board changes

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
HOSTPLUS boss David Elia attended his first Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia board meeting yesterday after being unveiled as the representative body's newest director. "We are extremely pleased to have someone of David's caliber join ...

Outcomes-based investing is the future for wealth creation sector: AMP

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... outcomes-based investing, we will not have an industry," Henaghan said, speaking yesterday at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia's (ASFA) annual conference. Most investment processes used now were designed for a stable economic background ...