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Good Super founders take the reins from MD

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
Following managing director Andrew MacLeod's departure, Good Super's founders will jointly take on the role. Phillip Kingston and Aron D'Souza formed Good Super in 2013 as a "social impact superannuation fund". Andrew MacLeod, previously general manager ...

AFA recommends SG monthly threshold removal

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
... the future of retirement for both males and females," said AFA chief executive Brad Fox and president Deborah Kent in a joint statement. "These savings will be realised during retirement from a perspective that women would retire with more money in their ...

Industry welcomes Innovation Statement

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... transformation in existing businesses. Critically, it is about businesses staying in Australia and engaging with disruptors," a joint statement from KPMG national chairman Peter Nash and national managing partner of brand and innovation Ken Reid said. ...

US Fed cleared for lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... rising to 80%. But after the strong US jobs numbers and overlayed with US Fed chief Janet Yelland's words to the US Congress' Joint Economic Committee a day prior that... 100K is O-K, lift off is 100% on its way. "To simply provide jobs for those who ...

Super governance saga continues

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... be a definition that is principle-based and which allows trustees to make reasonable determinations on independence," the joint letter from ASFA chairman Michael Easson and chief executive Pauline Vamos said. The letter was part of the latest chapter ...

Fairy tales may come true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... recession." This is what Fed Chair Janet Yellen told the Economic Club of Washington last night - the same words that the Joint Economic Committee would hear when she testifies before them tonight. There's no backing down now. Absent a significant exogenous ...

Governance bill loses Senators' support

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... the development of a best practice governance code of conduct for not-for-profit superannuation funds by 30 April 2016. A joint statement said the review will assess global best practice pension fund governance and develop a code of conduct which would ...

FoFA end marks start of new advice era

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
... towards "taking advice to the next stage." The next challenges include implementing the recommendations of the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) inquiry into education and professional standards. One of the most relevant measures is the creation of ...

Media Super reinvests in Australian cinema

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... investment type as a share of the fund's allocation to these asset classes to about one tenth. Explaining how it works, a joint statement issued by the fund and the financier, Fulcrum Media Finance, said: "Approved projects are able to claim a tax rebate ...

National Achievement Awards recognise top super executives

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... Financial had the foresight to establish the National Achievement Awards in 2012 and introduced Financial Standard as a joint partner this year. I have no doubt that these awards are now firmly established in our industry," Sicilia said. It was Sicilia's ...