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Industry funds attack banks on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
Industry Super Australia has launched a series of advertisements putting their case ahead of proposals likely to change the way employer and employee default superannuation funds are selected. Earlier this month federal Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg ...

British Airways to clash in court with pension trustee

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
British Airways is taking one of its pension fund's trustees to court over increases in payments to the airline's retired workers. At the heart of the case, which will be heard next February, is the cloudy relationship between the trustee and the entity ...

PROFILE: AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
The head of a large Australian superannuation fund once complained that a young employee at AAS didn't know anything about the super industry. Little did they know almost a decade later that same employee would be chief executive at AvSuper. Darren ...

HUB24 sees 3000% profit boost

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
HUB24 grew gross profit by 3000% in the 2015 financial year to $4.8 million, after a $0.1 million loss in the previous corresponding period. In its annual report, the investment administrator also noted it expected to reach $2 billion in funds under ...

Feds still in a hole at the Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
"You say it best when you say nothing at all." - Ronan Keating Or rather, they did - the voting and non-voting members of the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC). Their conflicting stances did not settle the when of the lift-off issue one single ...

Super funds act to reassure members

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
Superannuation funds are reassuring members not to panic amidst global share market turbulence because it is unlikely to have significant impact over the long term. AustSafe Super chief executive Craig Stevens said regardless of what is happening in ...

The horse still refuses to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
The tsunami that has swept the financial market world last week right through to Monday has left and gone... and once more, the sun shines and the sky's blue. This means that the Fed can go ahead and lift, right Virginia? More so after last night's ...

SMAs ideal for low-touch clients

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
Separately managed accounts are the ideal solution for clients with lower balances from both a practice management and client outcome perspective, according to research by JBWere. The JBWere/Investment Trends 2015 SMA Report, based on an online survey ...

Perpetual's acquisition of The Trust Company pays off

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
Perpetual Private's profit before tax was up 74% for the year to 30 June 2015, with the parent company registering a net profit after tax 50% higher. "The result was boosted by the acquisition of The Trust Company, growth in new high net worth clients ...

Australians are hardly retirement ready

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
Australians on the verge of retirement are least likely to be retirement ready according to new analysis from Commonwealth Bank. Reviewing the data of more than 12 million Australian superannuation accounts as at 30 June 2014, CommBank and Rice Warner ...