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Super funds encouraged to collect indigenous data

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... next three years. One community member at the inaugural Big Koori Super Day Out in Redfern found $750,000 in a defined benefit account he never knew existed.

Tail risk hedging works for industry fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
Vision Super has reassured local councils the $7.5 billion fund has protected its defined benefit (DB) members from share market downturns thanks to a tail risk hedging strategy. Vision Super chief investment officer Michael Wyrsch said management of ...

Industry fund flags DB issues in Fraser review

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
... superannuation fund has used the Fraser Review on governance to flag its concerns about the administration of defined benefit schemes. Vision Super, a $7.5 billion fund for local government and water authority employees, said any move to mandate independent ...

Pensioners want DB decision reversed

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
The Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association (CPSA) has launched a campaign for defined benefit pensioners who received a shock in their first 2016 Age Pension payment. On behalf of DB pensioners CPSA is proposing to write to federal Treasurer ...

Public sector retirees angry over income exemption cuts

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
Tens of thousands of public sector pensioners are learning the scale of changes to their defined benefit schemes that sees cuts to exemptions for the Centrelink pension income test. In June last year the federal parliament introduced a 10% cap on defined ...

FEATURE: The circle of life

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... still in their infancy but are generating a lot of interest. Finally, he added target income funds run like a defined benefit fund in that there is a liability benchmark. "Again these funds are in their infancy and hold a lot of promise," Rajan said. ...

NAB Prosper launches next month

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... and immediately warn them to call our phone-based team." "If they feed in a self-managed super fund (SMSF) or a defined benefit fund, obviously those have a much greater deal of complexity and the tool says it will not be giving advice around those scenarios," ...

Pension and retirement strategies a global problem

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... "Helping consumers' achieve their financial goals will require leaving behind the paternalistic approach of the defined benefit system and taking a complete view of their financial needs," Pallisco said. The survey also showed a gap between the views ...

Aussie super funds in top 100

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... more than US$15 trillion. Ten years ago total assets at the world's largest pension funds were US$8.4 trillion. Defined benefit (DB) funds account for 67% of total assets among the world's top pension funds, down from 75% five years ago. During 2014 ...

Investing is like a game of tennis

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... funds are still in their infancy but are generating a lot of interest. He added target income funds run like a defined benefit fund in that there is a liability benchmark. "Again these funds are in their infancy and hold a lot of promise," Rajan said ...