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ASFA appoints new policy head

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2024
... our member organisations from right across the superannuation community and the 18 million Australians who rely on our members for good retirement outcomes," Delahunty said. "James comes to super with more than a decade of public policy experience, having ...

Qantas Super taps fintech as an investment consultant

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2024
... accuracy, compliance adherence, and access to Ortec's specialised expertise, ultimately improving its ability to service its members. Qantas Super has also implemented Ortec's performance attribution platform, PEARL, to improve its performance and attribution ...

Rest teams up with Fidelity to launch new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2024
... investor. We believe its focus on climate impact offers a fantastic opportunity to benefit Rest's approximately two million members, including the more than a million who are younger than 30 and will retire into a post-2050 net-zero world," Lill said. ...

Corporate super fund to be terminated

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024
... its doors this year. After almost five decades, the Manildra Flour Mills Retirement Fund (MFMRF) has been closed to new members and will be wound up. The fund was established in 1977 by agribusiness Manildra Group which has now notified the trustee that ...

Super advice fee deductions compound red tape: JAWG

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024
... financial adviser from the member's superannuation account and ensure that such fees are not taxable benefits for members. The regulation mandates that the financial product advice "must be personal advice that is wholly or partly about the member's ...

Super funds' IDR process weak, inadequate: AFCA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2024
... complaints before they reach the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA). The complaints authority warned that members are bypassing super funds' IDR processes and instead make a beeline for AFCA, senior manager of superannuation Rhys Lloyd ...

Frontier promotes four staff members

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2024
... equities research team and is heavily involved in manager due diligence and specialist consulting advice. Further, two members of the firm's capital markets and asset allocation team, Fisher Yu and Vivian Xu, have been promoted to the role of quantitative ...

Nest appoints interim chief executive

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2024
... said. Most recently, Cornelius served as interim group chief executive at Skipton Building Society - a mutual owned by its members. He was previously Skipton's commercial and strategy director for a decade. He will take over from Dean, who announced ...

Treasury mulls transfer balance credit provision reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024
The government is consulting on changes to provisions afforded to super fund members with a capped defined benefit income stream to ensure they are not negatively impacted in the event of a merger. Under current legislation, when a super fund merges ...

Senate Committee endorses Superannuation Objective Bill

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2024
... placing a greater burden on taxpayers. "The Objective of Superannuation will importantly benefit and support superannuation members, and support policymakers to make decisions that deliver good outcomes for super members," the Committee said. It also ...