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Indigenous super on Canberra agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
Eliminating excessive red tape between superannuation funds, government agencies and indigenous Australians will be a priority when a working group meets with politicians in Canberra this week. Members of the Indigenous Superannuation Working Group ...

Link Group launches digital super card

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... services to make life easier for our clients. The digital membership card is easy to set up, easy to access and we know time-poor clients will appreciate the greater efficiency this change brings," Link Group chief executive of information, digital and ...

Too much ado about a speck

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... markets what they wanted and had been speculating all this time. Only the previous day, financial markets were happy at China's poor trade figures because that meant stimulation is coming pronto. Sure, the Politburo didn't give markets the kind of stimulation ...

Regulation is not the only answer: Herbert Smith Freehills

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... report, but 48 times in the Murray report, and many more times than that in the Cooper report. "Everything gets blamed on poor governance," Herbert Smith Freehills and university lecturer Scott Donald said. "People say it's the reason super is expensive ...

Blue Sky flushes dunnies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
Blue Sky Private Equity has sold its majority stake in portable toilet hire company Viking Rentals, to which it felt a special attachment because it was one of its first investments. Blue Sky has sold the stake to an Adelaide-based investment group ...

BlackRock likes Japan, Europe

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... said historically there had been a lot of the resistance in investing in Japanese equities because companies were seen as poor stewards of capital. He said a telling factor in BlackRock's strategy was the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) ...

Australians seeing Centrelink as "life insurance substitute"

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... better than them. Furthermore, nearly half of respondents (46%) self-assessed their level of life insurance understanding as "poor", and of those participating who weren't receiving financial advice, over two thirds (68%) saw other services (such as ...

Poor digital experience set to hurt revenue

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
Australia's top brands' failure to improve poor digital experience will lose customers to more tech-friendly companies, a report by SAP found. The SAP 'Australian digital experience report' found that 47% of the survey's 3,000 respondents were unsatisfied ...

Frydenberg slams modern awards as poorly-conceived

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
Federal Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said there is a significant opportunity for the government to reform the current "poorly-conceived" selection process of default superannuation funds. Speaking at the Financial Services Council (FSC) annual ...

Long term super fund returns approach record levels

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... Member accounts that had low exposure to growth assets, such as SMSFs and retirees, may thus have experienced relatively poor performance. The top 5 Workplace MySuper and default options were PSS MySuper, CSS, Military Super, PSS and MTAA Super. The ...