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SelectingSuper rejects claim small funds should merge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
SelectingSuper has rejected the reported assertion that super funds with less than $5 billion in assets should be required to merge. In was reported in Fairfax media this morning that a major superannuation research group has said that funds below this ...

Industry super warns against uniform laws

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... improve the way superannuation funds are governed. The changes would ensure corporate, industry, public sector and retail super funds have a minimum one-third independent directors on their trustee boards and an independent chair. The new governance ...

Super delivers 12.2% for year end April

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... Workplace default option. Within the Workplace default sector, the 12 month gap between not-for-profit (NFP) and retail super funds meanwhile closed as both segments achieved 12.2%. Rainmaker said this marks the end, for the time being at least, of the ...

Plan sponsors have fiduciary obligations: SCOTUS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... that periodically and document that the share class, revenue sharing and allocation methods are fair." With some retail super funds in Australia, under the watch of the regulator APRA, having up to 600 managed investment choices and some not-for-profit ...

Royal Commission looks at choice of super funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
The Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption is seeking submissions to answer why laws denying employees a choice of superannuation fund should not be repealed. In its latest discussion paper, Options for Law Reform, the Commission ...

Low-cost super awash with inflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... should do nowadays, then BT Super for Life becomes very appealing." Englund adds that another driver behind low-fee retail super products is the opportunity for side-by-side banking opportunities. "We're in a very fortunate position now where you can ...

Property groups looking through the schooner glass

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Australian property groups who recently made hospitality acquisitions may feel their choices are vindicated by a new report suggesting alcohol consumption has "rebounded" in the country. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ...

Bank super incentives 'unlawful': ISA

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... that a major bank had approached them about transferring their employees' default superannuation to the bank's own retail super fund in the last year. Of those, just under half say their bank offered them benefits to change funds. According to ISA, the ...

CalPERS meetings open to members

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... Australia are still resisting portfolio disclosure and some are reluctant to declare which investment managers they use. Retail super funds are meanwhile only now beginning to declare on their websites who their trustee directors are. Product disclosure ...

Super funds blend ETFs into investment strategies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... of third party distribution Mark Woolnough said that passive investment management is now used by close to 50% of retail super funds: "ultimately it comes down to value, and with the rise of passive investment strategies, high fees are becomingly increasingly ...