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Aware Super unaware of members with disabilities

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2020
First State Super's planned rebrand to Aware Super last week ran into trouble when the fund failed to disseminate the information in formats accessible to all members. A First State Super member, who has a hearing impairment, wrote to the fund's ...

Super to tip into negative cash flows: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2020
... assets and all funds in Australia will experience a decline in revenue during the financial year. "Australia's superannuation system is confronting its biggest challenge ever as it attempts to manage the impact of ongoing rising costs while cash ...

Industry fund lowers fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
The industry fund for coal miners has lowered investment and administration fees on pension products effective July 1. Mine Super's account-based pensions lowered the investment fees on four premixed options: aggressive (0.45% to 0.37%), growth ...

IFM pledges to kickstart COVID-19 recovery

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
... the community. "This model is a win for taxpayers and it's a win for working Australians: it will help grow their superannuation returns, while delivering them the public benefit of better infrastructure now and into the future," Neal added.

Pandemic exacerbated retirement confidence: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
... savings. Compared to the rest of the world, a greater proportion of Australians during the crisis have checked their superannuation more regularly, switched to lower-risk investments and started drawing down their super assets early. "Australians surveyed ...

Optimism, resilience high on the recruitment checklist

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
Workers looking for new employment in the superannuation and investment industries need to display qualities of optimism, self-motivation, resilience and mental agility to nab a role during the COVID-19 crisis. That's according to specialist recruiter ...

Changes to advice incoming: Bragg

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... said changes of that nature will be made public by the government soon. Bragg also discussed his thoughts on the superannuation system, saying the government should have a larger role in regulating the industry. "The idea that we cannot intervene in ...

Morrison's legacy will be retirement poverty: ACTU

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has slammed the government's early release of superannuation program, saying that Prime Minister Scott Morrison's legacy will be a wave of retirement poverty. Following the second round of early release withdrawals ...

Industry super accused of misleading consumers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... When Googling the term 'retail super' the paid advertisements that appears is for the Retail Employees Superannuation Trust (REST), HESTA, cbus and First State appear. Googling 'retail superannuation' advertisements for HESTA and First ...

Merged First State Super reveals new brand

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... throughout the process. Paper and timber industry's fund First Super and CBA's Colonial First State are two superannuation funds that share some words with the old name.