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Member direct investment needs work

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
Superannuation fund members should leave their money in a highly diversified option and come back when they retire according to an industry fund chief investment officer. Addressing a member direct investment options forum at an Australian Institute ...

MyPension product to solve retirement income hurdle

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... efficacy of the system to meet its core objective of providing an adequate income to meet the financial needs of retired Australians." Mercer senior partner David Knox also weight in the debate and asked for "a system that is simple for members, that ...

Government must not mandate products for super members: AIST

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... recommendations from the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). "Our super system is still decades away from full maturity. Most Australians still retire with relatively small balances and their needs in retirement must not be ignored by product providers and ...

Super doing its job: Actuaries Institute

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... intervention. The new paper, 'For Richer or Poorer', analyses for the first time the role superannuation plays for Australians in different age and wealth brackets as well as well as with different genders and marital status. It concludes that the Age ...

Give first home buyers access to super: CEDA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
... unsustainable fiscal pressure on the Federal Budget." A report by CEDA in April found that as many as 1.5 million Australians live in poverty and the elderly, particularly those who do not own their home, are an at-risk group. "There has been a lot of ...

AustralianSuper nabs Future Fund property exec

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
The Future Fund's director of property has joined AustralianSuper as senior investment manager of property. John Longo started at AustralianSuper last week, after leaving the Future Fund, where he worked for over four years. AustralianSuper did not ...

Reform summit must keep momentum: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... long-term success would entail meeting several benchmarks by 2050. The benchmarks include having less than 20% of retired Australians relying on the Age Pension; Australians retiring with an income replacement rate in retirement in excess of 65%; Age ...

Price is wrong for supermarket super

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
Over three quarters (76.3%) of Australians would never consider a Coles or Woolworths public offer superannuation fund, according to CoreData research. Based on a survey of 847 respondents, CoreData's 2015 Member Engagement Report also suggested that ...

Super funds act to reassure members

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
Superannuation funds are reassuring members not to panic amidst global share market turbulence because it is unlikely to have significant impact over the long term. AustSafe Super chief executive Craig Stevens said regardless of what is happening in ...

Australians are hardly retirement ready

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
Australians on the verge of retirement are least likely to be retirement ready according to new analysis from Commonwealth Bank. Reviewing the data of more than 12 million Australian superannuation accounts as at 30 June 2014, CommBank and Rice Warner ...