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AFA names Great Advice Awards winners

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2021
... Private Wealth's Dawn Thomas was the Western Australian winner for building trust with a client who had previously received poor advice. Sunsuper head of advice and retirement Anne Fuchs said: "We were proud to support the AFA Great Advice awards in ...

Higher premiums a problem, not a trend: AFA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2021
... asking 'hang on, well I bought this product three or four years ago and now I'm seeing these sort of price rises'. It is a poor outcome." Clark referred to increased claims experience and lower interest rates as the biggest influences on higher premiums. ...

More departures at EISS Super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2021
... executive Alex Hutchison following failure of the inaugural APRA performance test and media reports of frivolous spending and poor culture at the fund. In the days that followed Hutchison defended his tenure, saying he is proud of his record at the f ...

Former super fund chief defends tenure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021
... Future, Your Super performance test. Following that, the Sydney Morning Herald reported claims from unnamed former employees of poor culture, frivolous spending, and conflicted business arrangements at the fund. Now, Hutchison has hit back, saying plans ...

Australia ranked seventh for retirement wellbeing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2021
Australia has failed to crack the top five for retirement wellbeing outcomes once again, according to the Natixis Global Retirement Index. Australia maintained its ranking of seventh place in the latest index for the second consecutive year. Iceland ...

Retail, corporate funds lack transparency on ESG votes

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2021
Retail and corporate super funds continue to show a poor track record of how they vote on environmental, social and governance matters, new research shows. According to the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR), which analysed the ...

ASIC to watch member shunting to untested super products

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... leaves about a third of APRA-regulated funds out of the test's remit. "I'm concerned that there's a potential for poor market behaviour and mis-selling and driving people from tested products into untested products. And there is going to be a ...

Time to weed out dud funds: Delaney

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) ASI 2021 conference while Your Future, Your Super is imperfect, poor performing super funds need to be weeded out. AustralianSuper returned a record 20.4% last financial year and now has $225 ...

ASIC red tape unit welcomed

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
... Financial Services and Credit Panel as the single disciplinary body for financial advisers. ASIC also plans to up the ante over poor product governance and design to mitigate the risk of harm to consumers as well as supporting enhanced cyber resilience ...

Greater scrutiny of choice products needed: Scheerlinck

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... Super performance test results as a good first step in improving transparency for members but urged for greater focus on poor performing, non-MySuper products. This would "ensure that every Australian could get transparency on where their super fund ...