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Your Future, Your Super reforms closer to legislation

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020
... released its draft legislation for the Your Future, Your Super reforms, opening the industry consultation period until December 24. The package of reforms, which was unveiled in the 2020-21 budget, has four main components that will introduce an underperformance ...

Life insurance performance plummets

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2020
... insurance industry's performance continues to be challenged. "This deterioration was caused by poor results in both the December and March quarters," the prudential regulator said. Risk products reported a $216 million loss over the quarter with a $318 ...

Aware Super cuts carbon emissions by 40%

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
... then, the fund's Australian and global equities exposures have carbon emissions 40% below that of the baseline of 31 December 2019. Aware said this reduction is ahead of its goal. "The creation of our Aware Super carbon constrained benchmarks is one ...

Zurich to pay super on parental leave

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... for all circumstances related to growing their families and continuation of super contributions on unpaid leave. From December 21, the Family Care Policy will replace Zurich's existing Parental Leave Policy. The policy has been updated to better reflect ...

Retail superannuation funds grilled on member priorities

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... confident that BT's products will be "white" in the next iteration of the heatmaps, which will be released in mid-December. Rainmaker executive director of research Alex Dunnin commented that the idea behind lifecycle products is "very compelling". ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine and Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... coronavirus vaccine doses from Moderna (MRNA-US ) and Pfizer (PFE-US ) to immunize about 20 million Americans during December. Said within 24 hours of emergency use authorization by FDA, vaccine will be moving and distributed according to each state's ...

Responsible entity fined $2m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... available for distribution by the liquidator of Theta to its creditors. Theta placed itself into voluntary administration in December last year and appointed Worrells Solvency and Forensic Accountants as administrators of itself and Value Stream Investment ...

New trustee for Spaceship

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
... outcomes with the appointment of a new trustee. Spaceship Super will replace Tidswell Financial Services with Diversa on December 18 in a bid to streamline the business and ultimately improve efficiency and outcomes for its members. Spaceship is currently ...

Generation flags Ascalon closure

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
... of less than 10% and targeting flows outside the traditional investment bond space. It will commence its bookbuild in December and will launch to retail investors in April 2021. The Generation Life Market Linked Annuity is due to launch at the end of ...

ASIC charges BitConnect Australia lead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... to its collapse in early 2018. It is estimated that BitConnect had a market capitalisation of over US$2.5 billion in December 2017; money that had been sourced from mum and dad investors. Bigatton has been charged with one count of operating an unregistered ...