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AMP Advice expands network

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2024
... of companies in all scale, as well as both residential and commercial lending to clienteles including self-managed super funds (SMSF). Stantins founder and practice principal Spiros Livadaras said the move will improve Stantins' cross-selling capacity ...

Retirement calculators 'can't be counted on': SCA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024
... (SCA) has found they often fail to produce reasonable results. The consumer advocate reviewed the country's largest super funds to check whether they had a retirement calculator and assess their usefulness, finding large differences in results despite ...

Acadian, Yarra among most commonly used external managers by super funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024
... cost/benefit proposition in favour of the external manager," it said. In a sector trending inexorably toward fewer, larger super funds with increased investment insourcing, reliance on external asset consultants may be expected to decline. Yet, this ...

Industry funds dominate ASX

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
... APRA-regulated superannuation assets, account for about 12% of the $2.7 trillion market capitalisation of the ASX. While these super funds benefit from economies of scale - larger mandates give rise to lower investment management fees, more cost-effective ...

Nudging pre-retirees has 'little effect'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
The Australian government has recommended super funds use 'nudging' to help encourage members to engage more with their retirement savings, however new research from Yale University in the US has found the practice doesn't work as well as initially ...

Lack of talent challenging DDO compliance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
... stuck between a rock and a hard place, with an extreme dearth of talent making it difficult for fund managers and super funds to meet ASIC's expectations. Earlier this month, ASIC released the findings of its review of product issuers' compliance with ...

Reforms needed to boost engagement: ASFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
... body is now calling for the second tranche of the DBFO reforms to make financial advisers more accessible through super funds. "The advice in super legislation will reduce red tape and improve the efficiency of accessing advice. It will be a revolutionary ...

ESSSuper ups admin fee cap

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
... said its Retirement Income Stream account will charge $3400 p.a. based on this balance, which is still ahead of most super funds. ESSSuper recently launched the Balanced Growth Managed option to help members increase their super balance for retirement ...

Payday Super penalties ramped up ahead of legislation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024
... also detailed other changes it is making to support the transition to Payday Super. For instance, the deadline for super funds to allocate or return contributions will be reduced from 20 business days to three. And SuperStream data and payment standards ...

Arrowpoint launches new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024
Arrowpoint Capital has launched a new private debt fund targeting high-net-worth investors, super funds and SMSFs. It said the decision to launch the fund came from increased demand for capital from businesses outstripping supply. "The supply of capital ...