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Expected retirement age slowly going up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
Despite the policy push for increasing the retirement age, most Australians are still retiring in their early fifties even though more future retirees expect to have to keep working beyond age 70. The average age of retirement in Australia in 2012-13 ...

Former CFSGAM exec joins Frontier Advisors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
Industry fund-owned asset consultant Frontier Advisors has appointed former head of Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) Property Tim Stringer as a senior consultant in its real assets team. Stringer, who moves to Frontier from a position ...

FSC report backs case for Asia Passport

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... recommendations in the Johnson report, which include the creation of an Asia Region Funds Passport that would make it easier for Australians to invest directly in equities in a number of Asian countries and vice versa. "We don't have any reason to suggest ...

Industry and retail fund mergers on the cards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
As the pressure on superannuation funds to merge increases, large industry funds may start looking to retail funds for merger opportunities, according to DST Global Solutions head of business development Rhys Octigan. Octigan said that technological ...

How green are 'green funds'?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
Superannuation funds offering 'green' or 'sustainable' investment options may be misleading their members, with big polluters often topping the holdings lists. The top holding in AustralianSuper's Australian sustainable fund (managed by Perpetual) is ...

Inquiry recommends MRRT and LISC be scrapped

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
... Industry Superfund members by increasing the tax they pay on their super contributions - so that they are the only Australians who are denied a tax benefit for contributing to super." "ISA will continue to explore alternative options to find a means ...

ASIC chair defends against media 'smear'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
... the areas where we believe we can improve," he said. "ASIC is an organisation whose remit is broad. We touch most Australians, and people quite rightly have high expectations of us. Our submission shows that ASIC has done much to be proud of. We have ...

TWUSUPER CEO resigns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2013
TWUSUPER chief executive Debora Jackson has resigned from her position after less than a year in the role. TWUSUPER chair David Galbally said Jackson's resignation was for "personal reasons" and will take effect immediately. "The board thanks Debora ...

APRA to look into The New Daily

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013
Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos has said the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will look into The New Daily on the grounds that it is a misuse of members' money. Speaking to Stuart Hocking on radio station 2UE, the Assistant Treasurer ...

Government to discuss alternative funding for LISC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... submission also acknowledged the budgetary constraints; however, given the very significant impact of the LISC on Australians generally and on our own members, we submit that we should work very hard to find an alternative," she said. The Financial Planning ...