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Super Members Council renews calls for anti-hawking extension

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2024
... advisers using cold-calling businesses to get clients. Currently, the anti-hawking provisions only cover superannuation products, not financial advice services. "Anti-hawking laws should be tightened, and current consumer protections locked into law ...

OneSuper to take on more super products

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2024
... it will also transfer the Professional Super sub-plan on June 1. Professional Super is home to several superannuation products, including Cruelty Free Super, Engineering Super, Professional Super (formerly MobiSuper), and Student Super. According to ...

Vanguard backs current performance test

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
... comparison tool should sort by fees, as it's "the only forward-looking measure" for consumers to compare superannuation products. "Sorting by investment performance and the performance test as it stands may risk misleading consumers about the future ...

Hostplus rejects anti-competitive behaviour claims

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2024
... what it calls Workforce Management Platforms (WMP) operators "advertising, promoting or else favouring superannuation products as part of a choice framework". The consultation, which wrapped up on 3 November 2023, proposes employers pay staff super entitlements ...

Government consults on options to improve performance test

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2024
... changes to the test. For example, some stakeholders have proposed expanding the test to all APRA-regulated superannuation products, arguing for equal transparency and protection against underperformance. Extending the test could enhance the system's ...

How young Australians are missing out on better super returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2023
... superannuation product by 13.6% over the past decade. Innova managing director Dan Miles explained that default superannuation products were found to underperform an all-equities portfolio because "insufficient risk was being taken," pertinent given ...

Product modernisation will strengthen retirement outcomes: FSC

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023
... obligations) would not satisfy their best financial interest duties. "The FSC supports performance testing of superannuation products, however flaws in the current design of the 'Your Future, Your Super' framework is having adverse consequences ...

Cbus appoints new head of infrastructure

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023
... return of 7.8% over a 10-year period ending August 31, ranking it 10 th out of 40 evaluated workplace superannuation products.

Betashares carves slice of superannuation pie

CHLOE WALKER, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2023
... provide Australia's super fund consumers with more opportunities to join efficiently managed, low-fee superannuation products that, through their index-based investments, have proven to deliver strong returns," he said. Rainmaker research shows that ...

FSCP issues slap on the wrist to adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... insurance-needs analysis," the panel determined. "The advice was also inappropriately scoped being limited to superannuation products only when the clients were also seeking retirement planning advice." Subsequently, the adviser was given a written reprimand ...