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Members better off with equal representation: AIST

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... interests and consistently delivers outperformance. "Union and employer-appointed trustee directors of profit-to-member super funds are all independent from management and - unlike the directors of bank-owned super funds - they are free to act solely ...

Super funds partner to tackle the coal problem

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
Two of Australia's largest superannuation funds have partnered to address investors' growing concerns about the long-term viability of the coal sector in Australia. Cbus and First State Super, working with the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) ...

We cannot underestimate humans: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... increased its allocation to liquid alternatives to park money awaiting investment opportunities to emerge. Sicilia said super funds with flexible and resilient investment strategies can best adapt to political influences and populist outcomes. He said ...

Interim chief executive leaves listed advice firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
... enable consumers to link hundreds of Australian bank, brokerage and investment accounts, as well as retail and industry super funds, and an up-to-date, user-friendly dashboard provides oversight of their financial situation. Spring FG managing director ...

Traditional funds too apathetic to super start-ups

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
While the short-term impact of new players in the superannuation market might be overstated, established super funds should prepare for the long-term threat of such competition. That is the view of SuperEd chief customer officer James Coyle, who believes ...

Millennial super fund creates advisory board

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
... Spaceship Global Index Fund, which has a 0.65% fee and is aimed at reducing Australian equities exposure relative to other super funds. The fund's fee cuts follow Equip Super, which also has a substantial tech allocation, doing the same this week. "Australian ...

To opt in or out of life insurance: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
... parliamentary inquiry found group insurers were not doing enough to prevent the growing problem of employees owning multiple super funds and life insurance policies. The new Financial Standard weekly readership survey asks: Are ETFs distorting share ...

FSC takes aim at complacency in super

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
... with $1.6 million, in the same investment option for the next 25 years." The same principle, he added, applies to super funds that place the majority (80%) of disengaged super members straight into a balanced option from age 16 onwards. He even suggested ...

WA super funds combine forces

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
... in Western Australia and not going east like they have with recent successor fund transfers for other WA corporate super funds," Evans said. Shanahan added that both trustee boards are delighted about the prospect of a merger between the two funds.

Untouched super sits at $18 billion: ATO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
... Office show more than 6.3 million lost and ATO-held super accounts, with $14.12 billion of lost super being held by super funds and a further $3.75 billion of unclaimed super being held by the ATO - up from $3.2 billion last year. More than half of the ...