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Robert slates industry over inactive accounts

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
... Council's Life Insurance Conference in Sydney this morning, the Assistant Treasurer noted how the Government's Protecting Your Super package was designed to ensure superannuation accounts that had been inactive for more than 16 months would not have ...

Rice Warner predicts super fee-hike

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
... believes the number of superannuation accounts in Australia will drop by 26% as a result of the Government's Protecting Your Super package transferring accounts with balances lower than $6000 to the ATO. Further, Rice Warner said if the Productivity ...

Interest in early access to super rises

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... explained. "The key insight is if someone changing jobs on or after age 60, it may be an opportunity to consider accessing your super. "However, it's important that people fully understand the policy and carefully consider the potential impacts on their ...

New reforms to smash major super funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
AMP, Hostplus and ANZ OnePath will be hit hardest by the Protecting Your Super package, according to latest Rainmaker insight. More than five million superannuation accounts are set to benefit from the new legislation passed through the Senate last ...

Group insurance reforms to be tabled

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
... currently holding duplicate life cover in super are under 25 years of age. The measures form part of the wider Protecting Your Super package, the bulk of which was passed in the Senate last week. The measures being tabled today were lost in that round ...

IOOF braces for new super package, grandfathered commissions changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
IOOF's bottom line will take a hit from the newly legislated Protecting Your Super package and the proposed removal of grandfathered commissions. Acting chief executive Renato Mota and chief financial officer David Coulter told an investor briefing ...

Super account consolidation to hurt AMP

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2019
... AMP informed the market it would feel the pinch. The wealth manager said that barring any changes to the Protecting Your Super package - given it now heads back to the House of Representatives after the Senate's amendments last week - it would stand ...

Industry funds wary of stapling default members

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019
... Royal Commission and Productivity Commission's recommendations, while in Canberra the Senate pored over the Protecting Your Super Bill from last year's budget. The Senate last evening passed legislation to give the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) the ...

Government carves out super deal

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019
The Government's signature superannuation legislation passed through the Senate, but not without victims. Last night the Treasury Laws Amendment (Protecting Your Superannuation Package) Bill 2018 passed the Senate after a deal was struck with the Greens ...

Aussies find $860m in lost super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
More than $850 million of lost superannuation was found and consolidated towards the end of 2018. Releasing new data this week, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) said more than 66,000 Australians found and consolidated some of their retirement savings ...