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Bendigo and Adelaide Bank to face fresh class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2020
... finalised this week. EQ Legal director Sasha Ivantsoff told Financial Standard that 850 entities including self-managed super funds, trusts and individual investors had expressed interest in the class action. With only 600 enrolments needed for the action ...

New platform launches for super funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
A new platform has been launched for super funds aiming to help navigate the mounting pressure to improve returns and lower investment fees, costs and taxes. Parametric announced the new platform, saying with super funds facing increased pressures it ...

Super funds slapped over smoker premiums

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
... 'smoker' statuses to new members, with only four of the aforementioned businesses set to refund members. Of the seven super funds, CFS, Equity Trustees, Intrust and Netwealth will cough up $3.6 million in compensation to 5000 members - while ...

Tax impacting super fund investment strategies: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
New research from Parametric Australia suggests the taxation system is negatively impacting super funds' long horizon approach to investing. The research, titled Unlocked: A Framework for Superannuation Equity Portfolio Evolution in a Taxable Environment ...

It's your money: Hume calls out Keating

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
... therefore wouldn't understand the struggles facing everyday Australians. "It's your money. Not government's. Not the super funds'. And insiders who don't have to worry about their next pay cheque shouldn't lecture you for accessing it when you need it ...

Christian Super appoints new chief investment officer

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... within the Christian Super investment team. It now works with governments, community trusts, foundations and other super funds - including Future Super.

Adviser jailed over $2m Ponzi scheme

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... of, for the benefit of the client. Four counts related to funds invested with Miller through clients' self-managed super funds. Miller did not invest the funds with CFS but instead used them for his own benefit and to meet business expenses, which included ...

ERS continues super drain

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... billion removed from Australians' retirement savings, according to the latest APRA data. Over the week to July 26, super funds made payments to 173,000 members, bringing the total number of payments to approximately 3.8 million since inception. The ...

AIST pushes for policy reform

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... and energy in particular, but policy reform was needed to enable funds to invest on a larger scale. Profit-to-member super funds have significant capital available to scale up investments in these areas moving forward, she said, with housing affordability ...

ASIC terminates illegal investment scheme

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... the scheme encouraged clients of MCube Planners to withdraw their existing superannuation and establish self-managed super funds to invest, by way of a loan, in MyWealth Manager. The Federal Court found the scheme raised more than $7 million from 55 ...