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'Choice' dashboard, portfolio disclosure delayed to 2015

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... global investment managers and administrators of alternative assets have expressed concerns it would lead to Australian super funds being locked out of global investment opportunities because aspects of the Australian reforms are much more intense than ...

Industry responds to super fees study

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), said that the unfavourable comparison between Australian super fund fees and those of international funds was misleading. "With regards to international pensions, most have a greater allocation ...

Kinetic Super to reduce admin fees

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... reduce its fees comes just after the release of a report by the Grattan Institute, which criticises the high fees Australian super funds charge compared to their international counterparts.

Bring in Chilean-style super tender process: Grattan Institute

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
The government should get involved in picking default superannuation funds in order to increase competition and bring down fees, a Grattan Institute report has argued. The report, entitled 'Super sting: how to stop Australians paying too much for superannuation' ...

Larry Fink pays tribute to Australian super system

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
BlackRock chairman and chief executive Larry Fink has endorsed Australia's superannuation system in a recent letter to shareholders. As the world's largest asset manager celebrates its 25th anniversary, Fink's note highlighted the unpreparedness of ...

US retirement assets reach US$23tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
The US retirement assets market reached a stellar US$23 trillion at end 2013, up 16% through the year. But while the figure, at roughly 14 times the amount in the Australian superannuation system, seems astronomical. It is actually corresponds similarly ...

EQT Global Equity Fund on BT Wrap and Asgard

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
The Equity Trustees (EQT) Dundas Global Equity Fund is now listed on the BT Wrap and Asgard platforms. The fund takes a long-only position in 60 to 70 companies with a minimum market cap of US$1 billion. It is managed by Edinburgh-based Dundas Global ...

Death and TPD dominate Super Complaints Tribunal

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... instrumental in both. One related to TPD insurance. One case involved a New Zealand man who was a member of an Australian super fund, but moved back to New Zealand, where he died a few months later. The dispute was over whether the member had permanent ...

Regulators must enforce rules, not write them: Brogden

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
The Murray inquiry must review the role of the financial regulators to ensure that they remain within their remit of regulation enforcement, Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden has said. Speaking at the launch of the FSC/Deloitte ...

US Congress votes to raise debt ceiling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
Both houses of the US Congress have passed a bill to increase the US debt ceiling, with no additional debt ceiling increases expected to be needed until 2015. It was passed first in the House of Representatives 221 to 201 after an estimated 30 Republicans ...