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Super fund increases premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
A $117 billion superannuation fund is changing the cost of insurance across the board at the turn of the New Year. Most QSuper members will see income protection cover go up 31%, while death and total and permanent disability (TPD) cover will increase ...

Shipton's tax bill under scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has answered questions in regards to the remuneration of ASIC chair James Shipton and former deputy chair Daniel Crennan. At the parliamentary joint committee on corporations and financial services, chair ...

Vatican shakes up financial management

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
By orders of the Pope, the Vatican has a new financial manager. Pope Francis declared that the administrative management of the Vatican's funds should be transferred from the Secretariat of State to the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic ...

Hume scrutinises super fund spend

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
Senator Jane Hume is cracking down on how superannuation funds spend members' money and subjecting them to the same stringent reporting and disclosure requirements as publicly-listed companies. The Minister for Superannuation, Financials Services ...

Australians drain $35bn from super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
Around $35 billion has been removed from Australians retirement savings as the governments' early release of super (ERS) scheme edges towards its close. Having opened in April this year in response to the immediate effects of the COVID-19 lockdown ...

APRA eases hard caps in revamped executive pay

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
A new draft of APRA's remuneration guidelines has scrapped its original plan to cap financial measures' contribution to executives' variable remuneration at 50%. Instead the boards will be able to assign a "material weight" to how much of ...

AAT affirms SMSF adviser ban

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has upheld a ban imposed by ASIC on an SMSF adviser who failed to disclose significant conflicts of interest. In December 2019, Wayne Blazejczyk was banned by the regulator for five years after he was found ...

Sunsuper ups TPD premiums

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
Sunsuper will increase premiums for total and permanent disability insurance from 1 January 2021. This is the first increase for Sunsuper members since 2014. A 35-year-old female with default cover for example, will pay an additional $0.52 per week ...

Crennan nabs new gig

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
Former ASIC deputy chair Daniel Crennan has a new role with an advisory firm and boutique investment bank, which was named in an ASIC report in 2019. Crennan resigned from the corporate regulator just two weeks ago, following revelations that he was ...

MLC Super overhauls fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
MLC Super has introduced a number of management and administration fee changes for a broad range of products that took effect this month. On November 1, management fees were reduced and commissions removed in the Access Pre Select Fund. Also on this ...