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How advice can conquer stigma

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
... to solve the unmet advice gap for the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees Conference of Major Super Funds, Hostplus head of advice and financial planning Maurizio Lombardi pointed out many super fund members still don't access advice ...

APRA releases latest ERS data

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
... AustralianSuper has received the most applications, with its payout exceeding the $1 billion mark, followed by Sunsuper and Hostplus. Sunsuper has shown to be a standout amongst the top 10, being the only major player to release funds within the five ...

Few funds immune to ERS

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... AustralianSuper, had paid out $763 million by May 3 and has hit $1 billion since. Sunsuper had paid $784 million by May 3. Hostplus and Rest were not far behind on $661 million and $584 million respectively. Hostplus has since told members applications ...

ME Bank pays industry funds no dividends

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... the bank has ever paid dividends to the 26 industry superannuation funds that own the bank (including AustralianSuper, Hostplus and UniSuper). "If you've got a sole purpose test that money is supposed to be invested on behalf of members to make a ...

APRA releases fund-level ERS data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... AustralianSuper paid out 99,350 members to the tune of close to $764 million. About 98.9% of these were processed within five days. Hostplus received close to 127,500 applications, paid out 93,731 totalling more than $660 million, and 99.8% were paid ...

Link feels impact of COVID-19

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... accounts. Link is administrator for a number of super funds, including AustralianSuper, AMIST Super, BUSSQ, Cbus, HESTA and Hostplus. Link said it has seen increased member activity, with contact centre volumes swelling as a result of the ERS, investment ...

Darwinian time for super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... With COVID-19 rapidly shifting the ground beneath them, only the fittest superannuation funds will survive, according to Hostplus' Paul Watson. Appearing as part of a virtual panel discussing mergers in super, Hostplus group executive member experience ...

Early release applications top $9bn

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... release payments. The super funds for workers in the industries that have been decimated by COVID-19 including Rest, Hostplus, Qantas Super, Media Super and Sunsuper have also revealed their early release numbers. Industry fund for tourism and hospitality ...

AMP hangs on to AFLPA mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... different stance from the AFL Fund, which last December notified members of its plans to replace AMP with industry fund Hostplus starting February 28. In June last year, AMP lost its mandate as default fund for Australia Post to AustralianSuper. AMP ...

Early release of super numbers revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... deadline for payments too, with the average time for members to be paid after approval being just 1.6 business days. Hostplus told Financial Standard as at close of business on Friday, 24 April 2020, it had received 84,613 claims under the ERS scheme. ...