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OnePath tops Fat Cat super fund list

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2021
... these investment consultants and active fund managers take a nice big juicy fee from your super but rarely outperform a basic index that tracks the market. In fact, over the last five years approximately one in 10 super funds were able to beat the index ...

How will members respond to the YFYS test results?

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
Queensland University of Technology senior lecturer Elisabeth Sinnewe says some members may be lulled into a bad choice about superannuation when they read the performance test results. Sinnewe discussed the behavioural aspects of consumer choices ...

ASX 100 missing key reporting metric: ACCR

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021
... rights Katie Hepworth said. "However, at the moment many companies are failing to provide investors and the public with even basic information about their workforces, such as the percentage of labour hire and contract workers in their total workforce." ...

How wealthy families protect assets no matter what

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2021
... purchased a home in California and could not prove residence in Florida, so the divorce was settled under California law. "One basic move we're seeing from the pandemic is that people are overcoming life inertia. Before they would never dream of ...

BT Panorama down for a week

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
... who could not believe that a platform we promised was one of the newest with the best security, could not function to the basic level of giving them their balance," he said. "Thankfully we never placed all our business with any one platform and this ...

Rest closes basic cash option

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2021
The industry fund will close its basic cash option on August 13, as it sees returns dry up. The option invested in cash securities that have a maximum maturity of three months. It aimed to match the return of the one-month Australian Bank Bill rate ...

Get your ducks in a row before you think of an IPO

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
For small financial firms looking to list on the ASX, ongoing regulatory action may be a deal breaker to going public, according to HLB Mann Judd partner Marcus Ohm. Ohm says an undertaking with APRA or ASIC can preclude a wealth, funds management or ...

KLP divests Israeli-linked settlement firms

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021
... infrastructure. The exclusion of the telecommunications companies is done because communication services are considered a basic infrastructure for modern societies," she said. KLP has already excluded the Myanmar-linked company Adani Ports and Special ...

Regulators warn trustees of super advice fee obligations

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021
... trustees to deduct advice fees (other than for intra-fund advice) from a MySuper product because it is a simple product with basic features. His view was that members who wish to obtain financial advice about their superannuation should pay for that ...

Millennials to reap super reform rewards

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
... returns. "This is particularly true for those who withdrew their super early last year to deal with the pandemic and cover basic expenses, now is the time to start making up some lost ground by using these contributions to replenish their super and rebuild ...