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AustralianSuper PYS fee under scrutiny again

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... Committee, Corporations and Financial Services Senator Andrew Bragg asked ASIC commissioner Danielle Press how ASIC's review into member communication about the fee increase. Bragg said the member communications indicated that legislative reform ...

Pendal winds back fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
Pendal Group has made year-long fee cuts on two funds, as it sees the Reserve Bank of Australia holding the cash rate at the record-low of 0.25%. The Pendal Managed Cash Fund will go from charging 22bps per year to 12bps, while the Pendal Stable Cash ...

QIC appoints general manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
The Queensland-headquartered asset manager has appointed a general manager for capital solutions, and an investment director in its state investments team. Katrina King moved into the role of general manager, capital solutions, reporting to QIC's ...

First State to dump $40m of thermal coal holdings

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... over the next three years, as well as the introduction of a new low-carbon index. The fund will also commit to an ongoing review of its energy portfolio mix, to mitigate the potential for stranded assets. It will also set targets, fund-wide, for investments ...

ATO can make cost of advice cheaper: Asher

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... products in retirement." Asher's comments come as the government is due to hand down the findings from the Retirement Income Review that Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg launched last year. He said retirees' needs fall into just five categories: a high ...

Generation gap opens up in financial advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
... retirement savings shift, probably influencing the demand for financial advice, with 60% of respondents agreeing they need to review investments to better manage risk. Separately, 42% said their retirement and financial goals had been impacted by COVID-19 ...

Qantas Super awards insurance mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
... insurer, saying the COVID-19 pandemic in part led to the decision. "With the COVID-19 pandemic leading many insurers to review their premium rates, we have been negotiating with insurers to minimise any premium increases for our members," Qantas Super ...

Melburnians back in the lockup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
All of Metropolitan Melbourne will be back in lockdown before the clock strikes midnight tonight. Victoria's Department of Health and Human Services advises that from 11:59pm, 8 July 2020, Melburnians will only be allowed to leave home for four ...

BT un-aligns group insurance, awards mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
... is designed to help BT cover the costs of government reforms impacting super funds. On 4 May 2020, Westpac announced a review of its business units - determining that several business units lacked sufficient scale. One of those units was its life insurance ...

Experts battle for GST reform

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... tax collections on payroll ($26 billion in 2018-19) or stamp duties ($19 billion in 2018-19), it said. Similarly, the NSW Review of Federal Financial Relations has made the case for increasing the base or main GST rate. In its draft report Supporting ...