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No fee rises until 2011: Hostplus

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... least the next two years. Hostplus's decision to stop increasing its member fees marks the first time an Australian superannuation fund has made such a guarantee since the start of the global financial crisis. The fund's decision follows last week's ...

Indigenous Australians get fin lit boost

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
Senator Nick Sherry, minister for superannuation and corporate law, is meeting with Indigenous leaders and service providers in Far North Queensland and the Northern Territory to heighten residents' awareness of super and financial literacy. Senator ...

Calls to cut super contribs fails to get traction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... Simplistically rejecting the idea of temporarily cutting super contributions misses the big opportunity - putting superannuation into the economic frontline and making it part of our monetary policy heavy artillery. A group of economists lead by Nick ...

Govt targets judge's super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
The Government might have rejected a call to let employers swap employer contributions for extra take-home wages as a short term fiscal stimulus, but it hasn't stopped them threatening to slash non-contributory super paid to new judges. The Australian ...

What a member wants

Threats to superannuation discussed as mere theories only 18 months ago are now real - a turn of events that should encourage debate on whether super fund members should be treated as 'investors' or 'fund beneficiaries', said a governance expert. Scott ...

Is super sexist?

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... the ability to direct some of the fees to a chosen charity. The super fund's report on women follows minister for superannuation and corporate law, Senator Nick Sherry's comments on the possibility of removing contributions tax on super for women when ...

Alaskan fund appoints HarborVest Partners

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
The $43 billion Alaska Permanent Fund Corporations (APFC) is not letting the bear market slow its private equity investments as the fund hires HarborVest Partners to manage a new PE portfolio. APFC last week appointed US investment specialist HarborVest ...

QIC calls for better liquidity risk mgmt

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
Super funds are more likely to benefit from intensive scenario planning and frequent rebalancing programs in the face of a slowing economy, according to QIC. While many fuper funds already have risk amangement strategies in place, QIC is advising them ...

Govt targets judge's super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
The Government might have rejected a call to let employers swap employer contributions for extra take-home wages as a short term fiscal stimulus, but it hasn't stopped them threatening to slash non-contributory super paid to new judges. The Australian ...

Super funds reject calls to cut super contrib

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... trade-off that as soon as the economy recovers, compulsory contributions progressively increase to 12 per cent. Superannuation interest groups have rejected the proposal, though interestingly, not its economic argument. "At a time when the average superannuation ...