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Northern Trust eyes super fund trading desks

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... superannuation industry will increasingly outsource its trading functions and it wants a slice of the business. As Aussie super funds bring investments in-house and face greater demands for accountability from the regulators and the community, they will ...

NFP intra-fund advice is not a distribution channel

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... members' interests first and this extends to the financial advice their funds provide," she said. While many retail super funds are re-evaluating the advice they provide after the financial services Royal Commission, Bowtell said non-conflicted governance ...

Record tax receipts, record outlays yet back to surplus

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... is due to increases in revenue from asset sales, interest received and dividends. Increasing taxation revenue from super funds accounted for less than 2% of the total increase in Commonwealth receipts. Receipts growing so rapidly thanks to recovering ...

In a nutshell: Federal Budget 2019

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... aged 65 and 66," Frydenberg said. The Government is also making permanent the current tax relief in place for merging super funds that is due to expire on 1 July 2020. This will ensure member balances are not hit with the tax consequences of the merger. ...

AustralianSuper hikes insurance fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... waiting period) isn't changing, the fund said. Protecting Your Super legislation will take effect on 1 July 2019. Super funds will be forced to transfer inactive low-balance accounts to the ATO and cease charging insurance for inactive members. An ...

Don't expect super favouritism: Bowen

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... policy," by refusing to support ALP amendments to the member outcomes bill before parliament, which would have forced super funds to report their performance for comparison with others. "Labor amended this bill in the Senate to make the outcomes test ...

Big banks, super funds join forces for sustainability

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
Senior executives of the big banks, superannuation funds, insurance companies and industry bodies have come together for the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative. The initiative is an unprecedented collaboration with the aim of shaping an Australian ...

India Avenue fund distribution boosted

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019
... overtook France to become the world's sixth largest economy, behind the UK in fifth place. India Avenue says Australian super funds currently allocate an average of less than 1% to India.

Regulators receive pre-Budget funding boost

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... prudential regulator extend the Banking Executive Accountability Regime (BEAR) to all APRA-regulated entitles, including super funds and insurers; and greater supervision intensity across APRA-regulated entities, with a strong focus on underperforming ...

Banks move to derisk, workforces shrink

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... bank stocks, according to Rainmaker executive director of research and compliance Alex Dunnin. Imagine the impact if super funds were to lose their appetite. "The financial services' hefty weight in the ASX shows how much the Australian stockmarket ...