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Super framework ideal for advice: Jones

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2023
... assumptions that his proposed changes, based on the Quality of Review recommendations, will strictly apply to those wanting retirement advice. "If all I wanted to do was fiddle around with or clarify the definition of intra-fund advice, we would have ...

KPMG recommends gender-focused super reforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2023
... at home carers and recipients of paid parental leave to help close the gender gap. The KPMG Towards Gender Equity in Retirement report recommended the government consider adding superannuation contributions to the Commonwealth Carer Payment. The consultancy ...

Acting retirement lead appointed at Australian Retirement Trust

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2023
Two Australian Retirement Trust (ART) executives have stepped into new interim roles ahead of the newly appointed chief of retirement arriving at the end of the year. As recently announced by the $240 billion superannuation giant, Kathy Vincent has ...

UK pensions tapped to strengthen local startups

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2023
... The UK Treasury has announced plans to consolidate the nation's pension fund sector and unlock £75 billion in retirement savings to back high-growth companies. Yesterday, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered the Mansion House reforms and cited plans ...

Equipsuper adds board director

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2023
... two decades, Widdup has served as a director for several companies, including the Australian Catholic Superannuation Retirement Fund and Darwin International Airport. Currently, he sits on the boards of Australian Catholic University - the publicly funded ...

Retirees to own 55% of all super come 2032: Rainmaker

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2023
... invested," Rainmaker warned. Reflecting fund consolidation, the 10 biggest super funds already control half of all the retirement assets in APRA-regulated funds. In 2022, the 10 largest funds were AustralianSuper, Australian Retirement Trust (ART), Aware ...

Young people 'locked out' of superannuation: ISA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2023
... starting out - it's unfair and the law needs to be modernised." "Locking thousands of teen workers out of our world class retirement savings system is not giving them the super start to work they deserve. How can we explain that young workers don't get ...

Commonwealth Super Corp appoints chief customer officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2023
... leadership of the customer team and seeing the collaboration across the business help the fund's members achieve their retirement outcomes, CSC said.

Aware Super returns 10.7% for FY23

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2023
... right call. Aware's default MySuper option is a lifecycle product that actively steps down risk as members near retirement age and invests in high growth for members up to the age of 56. The result comes in ahead of Australian Retirement Trust (10%) ...

Super fund satisfaction still poor: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2023
... Benchmarking report found 25% of members who had recently engaged with their super fund are at a high risk of taking their retirement savings elsewhere. This is up from 23% last year. At the highest risk are members under 55 years of age, members who ...