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Group insurance reforms to be tabled

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
Legislative reforms that will see group life insurance offered to under-25 year olds and those with low account balances on an opt-in basis will be tabled in Parliament today. The Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Members' Interests First) Bill 2019 ...

APRA could oversee stalled super fund mergers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... studies about super fund merger proposals. In both cases, the merger discussions were derailed by who would get a seat on the table at the new merged fund's board. Energy Super and Equip Super's boards agreed a merger was in best interest of their members. ...

Institutions respond to Royal Commission, make commitments

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
... significant part of AMP's business - would continue to operate for customers. He added the conflicts of interest it brought to the table did need more effective management however. "The Royal Commission's final report will be a turning point for the ...

Industry funds dominate member satisfaction

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
Only two retail super funds made the top 10 in a Roy Morgan list that measured how satisfied members felt with their fund's financial performance. The two retail funds to make the list were Asgard and Macquarie and they were below the average satisfaction ...

Chief economist update: Policy normalisation interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
... by starting a trade war with the world in late March 2018. The impact of which is clearly shown in the IMF's forecast table which showed a sharp deterioration in the rate of growth in world trade volume. In January 2018, the IMF predicted world trade ...

Morningstar names best performing funds in 2018

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
Boutiques dominated Morningstar's list of best performing investment strategies for Aussie institutional investors, outstripping the median managers in their asset classes. Platypus, ECPAM and Hyperion were the best performing Australian shares strategies ...

Super funds edge towards a flat 2018

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 DEC 2018
The final quarter of calendar year 2018 started in horrible fashion for Australia's superannuation funds as about $22 billion was wiped from MySuper returns since January. However, some funds were able to manage the downside well. Recording this ...

Chief economist update: Is there a bear in there?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... pessimism and selling increases." You can count the New Year not happy once this gets going. There's still hope. The table below shows my calculations of the world's major equity markets' fall from grace. It shows that, apart from the Shanghai ...

Super admin provider adds chief information officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
... we are fortunate to have global custodians and banks as clients and this has introduced institutional grade rigour to the table. Which means we can work with all clients, large and small, to innovate and embrace new technologies within a security aware ...

New mortality study adds to retirement conversation

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
Actuaries have calculated mortality rates among Australians who use annuities. It is research they hope will help develop retirement income products including CIPRs. The Actuaries Institute and Rice Warner used UK mortality data on annuitants to calculate ...