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Women in Super: A year of accomplishments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... foundation, taking their total fundraising efforts for the charity to over $37 million to date. The group has ramped up its advocacy efforts for women in retirement. Research has found that women currently retire with 47% less superannuation than men ...

Fee cuts at super fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... as investment fees for its defensive option, which had $55 million in assets under management at the end of June. The advocacy option is seeing a similar fee cut, taking it from 1.30% p.a. to 1.20% p.a. This option had $93.6 million at the end of June. ...

Defined benefits robbed women: Kelty

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
... women are treated unfairly. Deal with it and then leave the system as it is," Kelty said. Women in Super, the national advocacy group for women employed in super and financial services, is currently calling for the retirement income review terms of references ...

Count Financial bolsters team as part of transition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2019
... position of executive manager, professional standards at Count Financial. Corcoran was previously executive manager, advice advocacy at CBA. A spokesperson for Count Financial confirmed Corcoran was appointed to the position as part of the transition ...

SMSFs not for everybody: ASIC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2019
... perspective that it started the discussion about the appropriateness of an SMSF, but BT head of financial literacy and advocacy Bryan Ashenden was not so sure. "I'm concerned about a dollar figure," Ashenden said at the time. "Because there are people ...

Advice associations slammed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2019
... losing their businesses due to changes in remuneration. Instead, the UFAA claims the associations have abandoned adviser advocacy "and set themselves up as education providers, charging advisers thousands more dollars for FASEA courses" as well as "Code ...

National Seniors partners with retirement funder

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
Australia's peak advocacy body for seniors partnered with a specialist retirement funding provider in an effort to improve retirement outcomes. National Seniors Australia (NSA) has partnered with Household Capital to work towards better retirement outcomes ...

Northern Trust to clear high-value payments

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... decades of experience in He will be responsible for cash and liquidity management, relationship management and market advocacy. Poulter will be based in Melbourne. He reports to Northern Trust's head of international cash management Charlie Lebrun, who ...

Super Consumers Australia launches, slams MySuper products

KRISTI CHENG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... O'Halloran. Super Consumers Australia at CHOICE is Australia's first dedicated and independent superannuation consumer advocacy organisation, established to "advance and protect the interests of people on low and middle incomes in Australia's ...

ASIC super specialist joins AIST

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has hired from ASIC to fill the role of head of advocacy as the incumbent joins a $53 billion industry fund. AIST has confirmed the appointment of Melissa Birks as its new head of advocacy, joining ...