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Challenger supports default 'MyPension' product

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
Superannuation funds with MySuper products should be allowed to extend their default offering into retirement, and should include annuities in that offering, Challenger has told the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). In its second submission to the FSI ...

Kinetic Super launches intra-fund advice service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... first intra-fund advice service, providing members with limited advice on insurance cover, contributions or investment choice. The service will be provided and licenced under the AFSL of Industry Fund Services (IFS) and delivered by IFS Authorised Representatives ...

Super fees drop as fund war rolls on

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... funds in MySuper," the Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden said. Research found that ANZ Smart Choice Super is currently the cheapest public offer MySuper product in the market, with a 0.6% fee, while ANZ Staff Super is the ...

New players need support to enter financial services: Coles

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... financial services in offshore markets have demonstrated its importance in driving innovation, competition and greater consumer choice." It said that "there is a need for the framework to encourage competition and avoid unnecessary barriers to entry." ...

HUB24 hits $1bn milestone amid rapid growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... director Andrew Alcock said that Paragem's open policy regarding approved product lists (APLs) will be maintained with a choice of platform. Where appropriate, HUB24 would provide a gateway service to investment managers via SMA's and model portfolio ...

Advertising won't grow membership, super funds told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
... cross-selling potential. It found that ANZ has the highest proportion of banking customers who are also members of Smart Choice or OnePath (13.8%), while CBA has 10.9% who are members of either CBA Essential Super or Colonial First State, and NAB and ...

Consumers overwhelmingly positive about super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... year. Brogden said that increased competition as a result of the MySuper regime would lead to even more members exercising choice. "We're going to see more movement than we've ever seen before," he said.

Australian Money Market adds CBA to platform

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
Australian Money Market (AMM) has added the CBA Accelerator Cash Account to the choice of options on its term deposit platform. The new cash management account (CMA) is aimed at advisers whose clients have an existing CBA cash management account. AMM ...

Annuities not right for default pensions: Rice Warner

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... annuities are not attractive because they are invested in "poor assets." However, he said annuities are "quite valid as a choice product." A spokesperson for Challenger countered Rice's claims with the following statement: "The failure of non-guaranteed ...

Government tables FoFA bill in House of Reps

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... locking into law the dodgy deal that they [the Coalition] have done with Clive Palmer to back the big banks over consumers." "Choice, Industry Super Australia, ASIC and the Government's own hand-picked chair of the Financial Systems Inquiry, David Murray ...