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ISA reaffirms stance on super guarantee

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... review recommended that super funds need to meet performance benchmarks or be removed from the system by APRA, expanding workplace award coverage and lowering the taper rate to $2 to remove a disincentive to save for middle income earners. It also recommended ...

Retail funds outperform, but industry funds dominate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... the good year for retail funds, large industry funds took the majority of top spots in SelectingSuper's personal and workplace super performance tables for 2019, with AustralianSuper, UniSuper, Hostplus and First State Super all cementing their dominance ...

SG increase means lower wages: Grattan

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... institute's new No free lunch report, higher super translates to lower wages. Using administrative data from 80,000 federal workplace agreements made from 1991 to 2018, Grattan's report shows around 80% of the cost of increases to super were passed on ...

First State Super acquires rental properties

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
... thanks to "inconsistent shift work hours and [a lack of] safe, secure and affordable housing in close proximity to their workplace". "First State Super has for some time been investigating how we can be part of the solution to the housing affordability ...

Your Super, Your Choice debate heats up

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... have the benefit of choice as soon as possible. "It's unacceptable after nearly 30 years of our compulsory system that workplace agreements are still allowed to force employees into a particular super fund, and prevent employees from having their Superannuation ...

Super fund names advice head

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
The executive manager of distribution at VicSuper has jumped to a $55 billion industry fund to lead its advice and education function. Josh Parisotto has stepped into the chief advice officer role at HESTA, beginning on 13 January 2020. He joins from ...

Why women struggle in financial advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
New research points the finger at conflicted remuneration as one of the factors keeping women out of the financial advice industry. The University of Otago in New Zealand and RMIT University in Melbourne have collaborated to explore why so many fewer ...

Super fund lowers MySuper fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... around since 1984. Its balanced (MySuper) option returned 11.8% in the year ending November, compared to the median workplace MySuper option that returned 13.5% over the period. The fund's 10-year returns stand at 7.8%, also below the category median ...

FSC hails super choice amendments

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 2) bill, and will apply to new enterprise agreements and workplace determinations made on or after July 1 2020, should the bill pass in its current form. Loane said it was fundamental ...

Mental health costs insurers $750m per year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... both experiencing an up-tick in the number of mental illness related claims." SuperFriends' Indicators of a Thriving Workplace Survey showed that one in two Australians have experienced, or are experiencing, a mental health condition. "The research showed ...