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AMP super trust adds $450m corporate fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2017
A $450 million corporate super fund will transfer to AMP's SignatureSuper master trust. The Water Corporation Superannuation Plan represents more than 3500 members. The decision to move to AMP followed a tender process which determined SignatureSuper ...

Fraser review challenges super board independence

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
... 'independent' directors will deliver quality or 'best practice' board governance for all super funds: that case has to be made, not inferred or asserted," Fraser said. His review, published almost a year since its due date, goes on to say the original ...

Bligh appointed ABA chief executive

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
... pay compensation, and it can't change laws or do anything other than make recommendations which the Government of the day is not bound to implement," Munchenberg said in an October 2016 statement. "Of those who believe banks need to improve the way they ...

Super must continue excellence path: O'Dwyer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
... standards. The government is committed, like you, to making it happen," O'Dwyer told delegates. The minister acknowledged that not everyone is satisfied with the superannuation tax reform package, saying that despite this the legislation will improve ...

Boring but the trend is our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
The world of financial markets and tea-leaves reading would be a boring place if not for "seasonality adjusted" estimates of economic statistics, especially ones that go up one month and down the next and/or beat expectations one month and disappoint ...

SMSFs no influence on housing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
... homebuyers, according to the latest insights from Class. The software firm's latest SMSF Benchmark Report shows SMSFs' are not influencing high property prices because, as a sector, they have negligible exposure to residential property. The research ...

RG 97 to lift fees 50 bps

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... that in their view, the regulator is fully aware RG 97 will have these impacts but believes that fees in themselves should not in any case be the prime filter for choosing a super fund or investment. "The changes will improve transparency and lead to ...

Senate committee files views on super objective

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
Merits behind the Superannuation (Objective) Bill may soon be debated in the Senate, following a Senate Economics Legislation Committee report filed on Tuesday. Committee chair, Senator Jane Hume, told Financial Standard that after considering all positions ...

Unadvised SMSFs ripe for advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... trustees, those that are advised are more likely to feel they've fully achieved their retirement goals. This is despite those not yet retired showing little difference in their view as to whether they're on track to meet those goals or not. "This tells ...

A rate rise on the ides of March?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
"Beware the ides of March". This quote had always been imbued with a sense of foreboding because this day marked the assassination of Julius Caesar back in 44 BC. It shouldn't be for the "ides" was just the fancy way Romans termed the 15th day of March ...