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Super funds should use soft power, not quotas to fix gender equality

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... Women In Super function held in Canberra yesterday said, "We don't want quotas but we support processes to address the problem. I see no appetite in this country for quotas regardless of whichever political party is in power." Quotas also encourage a ...

AIA tackles spike in mental illness-related claims

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
... SuperFriend, the industry is now paying out over $160 million a year in mental illness-related claims. It has become such a problem that reinsurance company Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) last month announced that it would no longer quote for TPDs ...

AustralianSuper to increase in-house investment capacity

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2013
... he conceded that not-for-profit funds would be unable to offer "top dollar." But in his view this is not necessarily a problem, as super funds offer "a long-term opportunity." "If you are looking to make a lot of money very quickly there are better opportunities," ...

Victims push for new Trio fraud inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013
... said. Matters also noted that the VOFF "has no longer any confidence on the Rudd government to effectively tackle the problem" after it tried to meet Treasurer Chris Bowen and received no response. The VOFF have recently met with the Australian Securities ...

Investors demand more clarity on carbon exposures

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013
... "We simply don't have time to talk about fund policy and business processes anymore. We have to get to the heart of the problem - that workers capital is still mostly blindly given to short term fund managers who are neither interested, or incentivised ...

NTAA keen to establish referral relations with advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... to the times when the financial planning industry began, at that time it was about being a professional, recognizing a problem and referring the client to the professional best suit to address that," Osborne said. He said that this has changed and lately ...

ASIC admits Commonwealth FP investigation was "not adequate"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
Communication with the whistleblowers who revealed poor practices within the Commonwealth Bank Financial Planning (CFP) unit was inadequate the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has admitted. ASIC recently submitted a 18-page document ...

Super flushed 'down the drain' by illiterate investment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013

Women need 7% more super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
... income significantly favours men. It also shows that raising women's wages would not be enough in itself to solve the problem. Earlier this week, actuarial consultants Rice Warner Actuaries achieved some fanfare with an announcement they would increase ...

International pension funds battle for Aussie infra

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... Cannane expects there to be "a steady stream of projects", rather than "an avalanche" of asset sales and projects. This problem was reflected in Brisbane City Council's decision not to put the tolling rights of the Legacy Way tunnel and Go-Between bridge ...