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Australian Food Super closes failed investment option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... Superannuation Trust - also known as AMIST Super - decided to rebrand as Australian Food Super in a bid to expand its membership beyond the meat industry. The fund has about 65,000 members and some $3 billion in assets.

AFCA finds more Dixon Advisory victims

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
... be forced to pay $18.5 million to fund the CSLR in the first year of operation. Abood said: "The Dixon Advisory AFCA membership has already been extended twice and the entity was put into administration over two years ago now. We urgently call upon the ...

APRA 'continuing to monitor' UniSuper outage

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024
... members, deal responsibly with members' money, and deliver good value for money. This is regardless of the phase of membership of the member," a spokesperson said. "Through our surveillance and enforcement work over recent years it has become increasingly ...

Farewell TelstraSuper: Largest corporate fund explores merger options

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024
... super fund was initially created in 1990 exclusively for Telstra employees 30 years ago, but it now has a much broader membership, having allowed family and friends of employees to join in recent years. Currently, less than one quarter of the fund's ...

Vanguard Super lowers fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
... non-super clients over 27 years in Australia." Assets under management has grown to more than $1 billion. About 65% of the membership is invested in the Lifecycle option; their average age is 40 years old. "As a new entrant in the system observing the ...

The risks and opportunities in advice: SIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2024
... they take time," Gregory said. "With this reform, we know that we can give effect to a much larger proportion of the membership that are in need of financial advice and willing to seek advice through their super funds. Once that opportunity is there ...

FSC expands financial advice membership

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
The Financial Services Council (FSC) is expanding its remit into the financial advice sector by adding six licensees to its network of members. Count, Fortnum Private Wealth, Infocus, Otivo, Rhombus Advisory, and WT Financial Group have joined FSC's ...

Mine Super cuts fees, updates investment options

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2024
... per year for super members due to the upcoming merger which will "... build scale and spread our costs over a bigger membership base." The fund will also offer two new pre-mixed investment options to its members - a defensive option and moderate option. ...

Two more executives leave Morningstar

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... included research and management of managed fund recommended lists for financial advisers and investment committee membership. Morningstar is still seeking to replace Peter Warnes, who retired earlier this month as head of equities research. Meantime ...

AustralianSuper engages TAL to create retirement option

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2024
... retirement. AustralianSuper's chief retirement officer Shawn Blackmore said the new option would be tailored for the fund's membership and designed to provide them with the confidence to spend the savings they had accumulated. "This is a major step forward ...