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Super is "next on the menu" for disruption: new ASFA CEO

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... engage with government. People want to embrace the system, and we need to help them do that." He said that if the super industry doesn't address these issues, it could lose relevancy in the face of a growing fintech sector. "If we're going to be successful ...

Super funds should enforce corporate conduct: ASFA

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... sector, so as to ensure "we avoid looking like headless chooks." Minto also highlighted collaboration within the super industry itself, saying it was important to improve a sector "that is already the envy of the world." He said the industry needed to ...

Super and innovation: a glass half full

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... excellence is there, and this VC pool run the way it is, will be a great enabler to boost that current blockage. The super industry can really step up and do a lot more of this." By this time next year Innovation Australia will have developed a national ...

Super industry CEO joins IIRC board

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2016
Australian Council of Superannuation Investors chief executive Louise Davidson will be the first Australian to join the board of the International Integrated Reporting Council. Davidson's three year board term begins 1 October and her appointment will ...

Super fund investment transparency can improve

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... around the world are under increasing pressure to disclose the carbon risk in their portfolios, the Australian super industry has a trillion dollar secret. Australians are in the dark about whether their money is supporting environmentally destructive ...

Super inefficiencies coming to the fore

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... The scale of the Commission's review is also being questioned by several industry bodies and system participants. Super industry representative groups ASFA and AIST, among numerous other submissions, have recommended the Commission drop several criteria ...

Disclosure deadlines present super challenge

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
... omit valuable information to members and report fee structures which are complex and lack transparency. But as the super industry progresses on disclosure it begs the question as to how fiduciary compliance will be upheld while a balance is sought to ...

Super investment poorly communicated

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees chief executive Tom Garcia believes the super industry has done "an extraordinarily bad job" of communicating its investment story to wider Australia. Opening the 2016 Australian Superannuation Investment ...

Challenger sees record sales boost in 2016

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
... boosted its annuity sales by 22% to $3.4 billion in 2016. The group attributed this increase to the moves in the super industry to include Challenger annuities on investment platforms. Chief executive Brian Benari said this allowed Challenger to "leverage ...

Super funds struggling as member engagement decreases

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... people - and that is that many Gen Ys can't and don't envisage a time when they will no longer be working. "The super industry needs to reshape the conversation they're having with younger members to recognise that phrases like 'retirement planning' ...