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Coalition members call for superannuation guarantee reform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... getting workers to raid what's left for more expensive houses. "It's clear that working people's wages and retirement savings are at risk under Peter Dutton."

MUFG Pension & Market Services awards tech mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... and pension services landscape". MUFG Retirement Solutions has some 12.5 million members and $865 billion in retirement savings. TCS country head for Australia and New Zealand Vikram Singh said the collaboration will strengthen the firm's work in ...

Superhero Super assets to swell via fund transfer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
... to APRA figures, at June end Superhero Super - which was launched in May 2021 - was home to $584 million in retirement savings on behalf of 12,860 members. This will be bolstered when it takes on Slate Super's $584.2 million and Simple Choice's ...

What you read in 2024

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
... July 31, almost 50 years on from its creation. The Nissan Superannuation Plan was created in 1977 to house the retirement savings of the car manufacturer's employees. The fund went through several mergers including the combination of the Nissan Executive ...

ISPT joins IFM: Names new leaders

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... ownership, and purpose will strengthen its capabilities, investment offering, and capacity to deliver for the retirement savings of millions of working people. "Over 30 years ISPT has developed a robust portfolio and strategic approach to investing in ...

Government bolsters funding for payday super reforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... the average affected worker missing out on $1800 in super a year - which could mean more than $30,000 less in retirement savings. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) analysis similarly showed that in real terms, a 25-year-old ...

IFM urges investment in housing, hires former Dexus chief

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... the steps governments could take to boost investment to deliver appropriate risk-adjusted returns to workers' retirement savings and deliver housing at scale. The key recommendation in the report - aimed at doubling the Housing Australia Future Fund ...

ISPT joins IFM Investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
... ownership, and purpose will strengthen its capabilities, investment offering, and capacity to deliver for the retirement savings of millions of working people. "Over 30 years ISPT has developed a robust portfolio and strategic approach to investing in ...

Top superannuation policy priorities for 2025: SMC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2024
... universality, and compulsion - and cautioned that any policy proposals undermining these will undermine Australians' retirement savings and "hand a large bill" to taxpayers. For example, its research shows that a 30-year-old who withdrew $20,000 through ...

Super framework, SMSFs conducive to financial abuse: Inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
Lax superannuation laws make it too easy for perpetrators of domestic violence to access victims' retirement savings, while the current framework for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) enables financial abuse to flourish, a parliamentary inquiry found. ...