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New life insurance standards for super

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2016
... Funds of Australia (ASFA), the Financial Services Council (FSC), the Industry Funds Forum (IFF) and Industry Super Australia (ISA). The combined group will include representatives from funds, insurers, consumer groups and industry bodies. The group will ...

Infrastructure critical for super returns

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016
... pipelines that will in turn boost economic growth and diversify member investments. New research from Industry Super Australia (ISA) found that Australia's not for profit industry super funds are leveraging the scale and long term investment horizons ...

MySuper transition costing retail members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2016
... products; impacts that could "multiply four-fold" if the retail MySuper product they're placed in underperforms by 1% - something ISA says has been the trend since MySuper's 2013 inception. While not-for-profit funds completed the transition in the first ...

Future Fund model for social housing

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016
... security for many Australians." In a submission to the federal government's Affordable Housing Working Group earlier this year, ISA argued for policy shifts that would create opportunities for superannuation funds to meet their long term investment goals ...

Industry bodies united on group insurance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... Superannuation Trustees (AIST), the Financial Services Council (FSC), the Industry Funds Forum (IFF) and Industry Super Australia (ISA), have released a statement of intent outlining their standing on issues. The statement highlights the success of group ...

Super members should face "better off test"

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
... Commonwealth Bank fronts the review at 2pm today, followed by ANZ tomorrow and then National Australian Bank and Westpac on Thursday. ISA has released a report showing the major banks have switched tens of thousands of customers into poorly performing ...

Default super system splits industry

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... estimated two thirds of working Australians and optimise their retirement outcomes," Garcia said. Industry Super Australia (ISA) said an estimated eight million workers do not choose their own super fund and rely on their employer's default fund. ISA ...

Regal named best Australian hedge fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
Regal Funds Management has been crowned Australia's best hedge fund for 2016 at an industry awards ceremony in Sydney last night. Gathering the hedge fund sector's best and brightest, the Hedge Funds Rock and Australian Hedge Fund Awards - now in its ...

Local hedge funds fighting for insto attention

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
Local hedge funds are still battling super funds' preference to look offshore for alternatives exposure, according to Hedge Funds Rock and The Australian Hedge Fund Awards co-founder Kim Ivey. Ahead of the awards night in September, Ivey said this is ...

Super industry bodies unite over adequacy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
... Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), Industry Super Australia (ISA), and the SMSF Association (SMSFA) all agree the current objective "fails to articulate the social goal of the system ...