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No pat on the back for high performers: APRA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019
... we're counting on," she said. "As much as transparency is important, the ultimate purpose of the heat map is - to be blunt - to galvanise the trustees of underperforming products into action." Rowell said the regulator expected trustees to analyse ...

Super trustees must do better: Byres

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
APRA will soon need to have some difficult conversations with poorly performing superannuation funds, according to chair Wayne Byres. Speaking at a Gilbert + Tobin event in Sydney this week, Byres said the ability of the prudential regulator to hold ...

Putting Members' Interests First Bill reintroduced

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... protect some members - such as young people - for paying for insurance they may not need." However, the legislation is "too blunt and the timeframe is too short", she said, adding that younger people in risky occupations do get injured and make claims. ...

Best-in-show splits industry

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... Superannuation Trustees chief executive Eva Scheerlinck said the Commission's proposal for a top 10 default list is a "blunt mechanism that will be needlessly disruptive and fails to address the more serious problem of underperformance in the wider ...

Specialist SMSF advisers need only apply

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... the commission said. Further to this, the Productivity Commission has determined that a minimum balance requirement is too blunt an instrument. This is in contrast to a suggestion in the commission's interim report that a minimum balance of $1 million ...

Lifecycle super can be better: Frontier

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... strategies should work out retirement income targets for members and adjust investments to meet that goal rather than taking a "blunt mass customisation" approach. Lifecycle Investing: A refresher reviewed lifecycle strategies five years on from their ...

Social media reacts to final Royal Commission hearings

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... resign immediately - Josh Bornstein (@JoshBBornstein) November 27, 2018 The Australia Institute director Josh Bornstein was blunt in his assessment of the NAB chair Ken Henry's Royal Commission performance. Elliott says "speak up culture has been ...

Poor performance a fiduciary breach

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... funds and their fiduciary duty to members. "We are at a bit of a tipping point and the traditional retail model of - to be blunt - selling conflicted products that perform badly and/or have high costs is not going to survive in the new world because ...

NAB looked to keep plan service fees, Royal Commission hears

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
The Royal Commission heard this morning that NAB considered ways to justify retaining plan service fees (PSF) it charged superannuation fund members despite the services not actually being supplied. Questioning former NAB general manager of superannuation ...

FASEA accelerates degree equivalency agenda

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
FASEA chief executive Deen Sanders told the SMSF Association's 2018 National Conference that as part of the new financial adviser education regime a proposed framework for degree equivalence will be released in coming weeks. "Having heard the anxiety ...