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Vale David Smith

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2019
... Services Union, passed away suddenly on November 22. He joined the HESTA board in January 2018 and served as president of the AIST before stepping down in April 2018. Smith had over 25 years' experience in the super industry and had previously served ...

APRA begins super data transformation efforts

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019
... next year, with the first tranche of data collected under Phase One due for publication by late-2020. Scheerlinck said the AIST was pleased APRA had acted on its call for improvement, so the public could be "sure that for-profit providers aren't hiding ...

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 ...