Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 131 - 140 of 536 results for "AIST"

No one reads the PDS: ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
... said that members who choose outside the default system would benefit from better regulations and performance benchmarks. "AIST previously commissioned consumer research by Essential Media on how non-default members choose their super fund. The research ...

SG increase will not help women: Treasury

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... (31%), Queensland (34%), New South Wales (26%), South Australia (33%), Tasmania (33%), ACT (20%) and Northern Territory (16%). AIST chief executive Eva Scheerlinck said with an estimated 40% of single women retiring in poverty, there was an urgent need ...

MySuper not the only problem: AIST

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
... back at newly launched consumer group Super Consumers Australia after it unleashed an attack on MySuper products yesterday. AIST chief executive Eva Scheerlinck moved to play down the significance of the Super Consumers Australia's (SCA) comments on ...

Treasury agreed with Grattan SG modelling

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... Australia's Phil Gallagher who called the analysis "deeply flawed", the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and Rice Warner's Nathan Bonarius. Treasury emails published Friday, under a freedom of information request from The ...

Big Super Day Out success, but more to be done

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... calls for more work to improve Indigenous super outcomes. Releasing its Indigenous Super Summit 2019 report this week, the AIST noted the challenges Indigenous Australians face when engaging with the super system, such as meeting basic identification ...

ASIC super specialist joins AIST

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... Superannuation Trustees has hired from ASIC to fill the role of head of advocacy as the incumbent joins a $53 billion industry fund. AIST has confirmed the appointment of Melissa Birks as its new head of advocacy, joining from the corporate regulator ...

Peak bodies respond to government roadmap

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2019
... recommendations is "far too slow", with only a handful of recommendations having been subject to the legislative process. AIST chief executive Eva Scheerlinck was particularly critical of the government's response to the recommendation to end grandfathered ...

All options open for retirement income review

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
... super system have nothing to do with helping the less well-off and everything to do with saving the Government money." The AIST boss also criticised "well-paid Coalition MPs" and pointed out their own superannuation contributions stood at 15.4%. Scheerlinck ...

SG debate puts super in a spin

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
... Trustees warned the difference in the retirement outcomes of men and women would be entrenched without an increase to the SG. AIST said women currently aged between 35 and 60 would end up with around 30% less super than men of the same age in retirement ...

Associations raise member outcomes concern

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019
... amended to align with the legislation and must be more clearly subordinate to the legislation and reflect its intent." The AIST is further recommending SPS 515 prioritises long-term net returns - "the most important contributor to optimising retirement." ...