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Ideas give insight to opportunity: Vanguard

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
... 40:1. According to Davis, the idea multiplier is currently at 400:1, and he expects the rate of global innovation and productivity growth to follow in its stead. "Ladies and gentlemen for the first time in 10 years, I think we just found the first upside ...

Industry fund launches new integrated platform

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
... accurately. HESTA says the change is saving the fund roughly 55 hours of manual handling each month, has improved productivity and had culled costs that came with this point-to-point integration. It first used Boomi to connect its insurance and member ...

The $500k price tag on bad super choices

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
... who are relying on their super fund to look after them and help them save for their retirement." "While the recent Productivity Commission recommended major reforms to the superannuation industry that should see Australia's poorest performing super ...

Australians prioritise car cover over life insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... for life insurance. Seventy-five percent of Victorians have car insurance, and only 30% have life insurance. The Productivity Commission estimates about 12 million Australians have one or more forms of life insurance through their superannuation. A 2015 ...

Hayne stops short of dismantling vertical integration

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
... disruptive," Hayne said. "I cannot say that the benefits of requiring separation would outweigh the costs, and the Productivity Commission concluded that 'forced structural separation is not likely to prove an effective regulatory response to competition ...

Hayne targets superannuation employer connections

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... superannuation in bank branches under a general advice scenario - which "may have contravened the law." He echoed the Productivity Commission's recommendation that an employee should be defaulted to one superannuation account over their working life ...

Former ACCC chair will lead APRA capability review

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... Commissioner to begin "as soon as reasonably practicable." An APRA capability review was also recommended by the Productivity Commission in its final report into superannuation competition and efficiency. The Government's official response said it ...

Parametric critiques Productivity Commission's final report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
Parametric have taken the final Productivity Commission report into superannuation to task in its latest research report. According to the firm, the PC missed an opportunity to highlight how super members retiring on after-tax returns are penalised ...

Will the PC recommendations fall through the cracks?

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
Nearly two weeks after the Productivity Commission unveiled its final report, has its push to overhaul the superannuation system fallen on deaf ears? Two legal experts discuss what could happen next. Following a three-year review that produced 31 recommendations ...

Industry funds dominate member satisfaction

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
... Super (64.4%), Macquarie (63.7%) and HOSTPLUS (62.5%). Best in show must factor in member ratings Roy Morgan said the Productivity Commission's recommendation to create a list of 10 best-performing super funds as default options for new workers must ...