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Superannuation consultant seeks new chief

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
A superannuation consultancy is looking for a new chief executive as it restructures its business. QMV's current chief executive Mark Vaughan will move to an executive director role and retain his board seat. The firm has appointed Lawson Delaney to ...

Link moves to streamline super fund advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
Link Group has a new technology partnership aimed at streamlining financial advice for superannuation fund members. Link will combine its services with personal financial management tool Moneysoft for a new offering will be available to all super funds ...

AMP sued for charging dead clients

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... relates to five companies that are or were subsidiaries of AMP between May 2015 and August 2019. These include AMP Superannuation Limited; NM Superannuation Proprietary Limited; AMP Life Limited, AMP Financial Planning Proprietary Limited; AMP Services ...

UniSuper names next chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021
The $95 billion superannuation fund has picked an external candidate to replace outgoing chief executive Kevin O'Sullivan. Peter Chun will replace O'Sullivan, who earlier this year announced his retirement after eight years in the role. Chun ...

Future Fund adds super fund chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021
The chair of the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation has joined the Future Fund's Board of Guardians. Patricia Cross has been appointed to a five-year term, during which time she will draw on her extensive experience in asset and investment management. ...

Superannuation assets hit $3.13tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021
Superannuation assets hit a record high of $3.127 trillion at the end of the March 2021, new APRA figures show. This is a 15.1% increase year on year, APRA said in releasing the quarterly figures, attributing the growth to strong investment performance. ...

Former adviser jailed for six years

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021
A former financial adviser will spend six years in prison for stealing nearly $3 million of clients' superannuation money. The District Court of New South Wales found Ross Andrew Hopkins, from Killara, guilty of 15 offences. Hopkins was the sole ...

Poor financial literacy failing young workers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
... same number do not know how to calculate interest on investments. One in four young workers do not know what the Superannuation Guarantee is and how much their employers should be contributing to their super. Incidentally, this cohort do no know if they ...

Super funds hunt for co-investment deals

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
Superannuation funds' appetite for alternative investments, particularly private equity and infrastructure, is heating up, new research shows. Joint research by Preqin and the Australian Investment Council reveal super funds are on the hunt for ...

Accessing super cements inequality: Report

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
... low incomes and single parents reported being left with dwindling financial buffers after accessing savings and superannuation, and increasing debt during the pandemic, the study found. "Opportunities to recoup these losses are likely to be limited ...