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PC puts spotlight on lifecycle super products

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... products - but seeing that it comprises 30% of MySuper it would be an oversight not to look at it in-depth and see which super funds have made exemplary progress in this area. She said QSuper is a "unicorn" in lifecycle products as it optimises member ...

Best-in-show list addresses insurance gaps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... population, only 0.4% of insurance benefits are not paid based on members having multiple insurance policies with different super funds. This is something AustralianSuper constantly monitors to ensure it is providing insurance with little or no value ...

Super fund rationalisation painful: PwC

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
... industry hasn't done enough to fix it, she said. Goodwin added advisers should be able to show clients switching super funds how much better or worse off in retirement they will be if moving from a default product.

Super industry critiques PC draft report

KARREN VERGARA AND STEPHEN FAY  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
... going?' Nor is the current system doing a good job of "paying money safely back to retirees," Cooper said. Not only do super funds need to respond to this, but also financial advisers. Cooper said advisers have limited training when it comes to the ...

Cbus aims to reduce costs through internalisation

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
... which would otherwise keep growing as a percentage of funds under management." Fok also commented on the trend of super funds investing in infrastructure, arguing that Cbus is well-placed to directly invest in new infrastructure assets given its "development ...

SSGA appoints head of retirement solutions

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
... newly-created role, Shead will build out a team tasked with developing retirement investment products, working alongside super funds and finanical advisers. "As more Australian super fund members transition from accumulating wealth to drawing down their ...

Asset manager awards admin mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... using an electronic signature and bank level encryption. It's able to identify retail investors and self-managed super funds against government issued databases in a matter of seconds, Grofski said at the time. "We started to develop our own technology ...

Fidante eyes actively managed ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... believe, over the time, this will lead to a quite profound shift in the diversification particularly for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) and other self-directed investors. They are usually under-allocated to fixed income and that's partly because ...

Members abandon bank-aligned group insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... the end of 2019. Rainmaker added the small number of insurers with an increased concentration of members in larger super funds underpins the competitive nature of the market. In the NFP segment, AIA, TAL and MetLife are the dominant life insurance providers ...

Australia should consider Islamic finance to bridge infrastructure gap

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
If super funds continue to spurn local infrastructure investment in favour of offshore assets, Crescent Wealth managing director Talal Yassine believes the Islamic finance market should help make up Australia's shortfall. Yassine called on the Federal ...