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Super not "a top-up" for Age Pension: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... expectation should be that super is a replacement for the pension, not a top-up, and the Age Pension needs to be considered as a safety net for those who cannot provide for their own retirement," Loane told an audience of industry stakeholders in Sydney. ...

Privatisation backlash derails infra investing

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... Queensland's newly elected Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has vowed that her first act will be to ensure public sector job safety and stop "any work to do with asset sales". Institutional investors with infrastructure assets (which represent 5% of Australia's ...

Consumers need super default safety net: ISA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
Consumers need the protection of a default superannuation fund safety net despite calls for deregulation to increase competition, Industry Super Australia (ISA) said. The body representing some industry super funds argued that efforts to deploy competitive ...

Super returns dip in September quarter

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... Fair Work Commission's involvement in the selection of default super funds for modern awards. "Australians rely on the safety net to ensure our savings are in good hands," he said. "The banks, however, treat super as just another product from which to ...

ASIC stands up for adviser national exam

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... cheating," Medcraft said. He compared the proposal to the examination that pilots need to take under the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). "Pilots sit an exam set by CASA to test their skills and knowledge acquired from both training and experience. ...

Bitcoin exchange goes live

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... the company audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers. We're very comfortable that we have the right settings here to ensure its safety and success." Independent Reserve servers are securely located at two Tier 3 data centres in Sydney, allowing for synchronous ...

ISA proposes new restrictions on retail super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... focused on the role of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) in selecting eligible default funds, which he argued was a necessary "safety net". Brogden, meanwhile, argued that the FWC system was "anti-competitive" and called for it to be abolished. Whiteley ...

FSC-ISA battle recommences over MySuper data

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... MySuper products offered by FSC members." ISA returned: "The banks are lobbying the government to scrap the default super safety net so they can leverage their business banking relationships and cross-sell employee default funds to employers."

New report stokes 'Compare the Pair' flames

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... In the release ISA chief executive David Whiteley said this "alarming finding" reinforces the need for a default super safety net to ensure that only the best performing super funds are default funds. "With eight in ten Australians not choosing their ...

Boost from Chinese stimulus to be short-lived

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... closely linked to China's changing demographics." He explains that under current economic conditions and with no social safety net, China is predominantly a nation of savers. But as the baby boomer generation retires, the resultant shrinking labour force ...