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Qantas Super introduces passive option, drops fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2021
... $1200 to $1050. Members with a $50,000 balance will see savings of 13.1% or $28, while a member with $500,000 in super would save $150 or 12.5%. Finally, following a review by Willis Towers Watson as part of the airline's pandemic recovery plan ...

UK pension funds pushed to merge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
The UK pension sector is experiencing similar pressure to that being felt by Australia's super funds, with the pensions regulator asking defined contribution (DC) funds with less than £5 billion in assets being urged to merge. In September last ...

Industry mixed on YFYS

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
... been a vocal and long-term advocate for stapling and our analysis shows that having a single superannuation account will save Australian workers up to $1.8 billion in fees over the first three years," FSC chief executive Sally Loane said. "The new performance ...

Goodments by Douugh now in Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... realise buying property is becoming increasingly difficult, so they are turning to shares to make their money work harder and save to secure their futures," Douugh founder and chief executive Andy Taylor said. The Goodments by Douugh proposition in Australia ...

Advisers jump onto paraplanning platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
... marketplace reduces the costs and time for advisers, who now don't have to spend $30,000 outsourcing paraplanning work, and save up to $80,000 per year, which is the salary for an experienced paraplanner, she said.

Licensee awards tech mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... technology solution mandate from a recently launched dealer group. Dealer group Finchley & Kent claims that its advisers save up to 60% of their time on administrative work as a result of this new partnership. The solution is speeding up file notes and ...

Link moves to streamline super fund advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... paper-based fact find documents, auto-populating fact find modules to improve member experience and automating data entry to save advisers time. These capabilities should allow funds to provide personalised financial advice at a reduced cost per-member ...

Research reveals factors influencing advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021
... hypothetical client profiles. Clients one and four were identical aside from risk tolerance, clients two and five were the same save for one owning a much more valuable property, and three and six were only differentiated by their varied spending goals. ...

Budget no cure for hangover from last one

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
An Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees policy expert has laid out just how much work super funds have ahead of them in dealing with the last two federal budgets. AIST head of advocacy Mel Birks updated the Conference of Major Superannuation ...

OPINION: Super for housing was the wrong policy fight

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... a brilliant idea to enable Australians to use the administrative infrastructure of their superannuation fund to help them save for their first home. But with interest rates at 6000-year lows and - based on comments from the Reserve Bank of Australia ...