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Industry mega trends impacting distribution roles

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2023
... advisers for access to its global strategies. Natixis has built a distribution platform that can partner with not just the super funds but also the rapidly growing advice businesses and the consultants who support them. Watson is also responding to the ...

NGS Super to debut retirement income product

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2023
NGS Super is set to launch a new retirement product this November in a bid to help decumulation phase members retire with confidence. NGS Super chief executive Natalie Previtera told Financial Standard that the $14.2 billion superannuation fund will ...

Aware Super, Altis buy Crown Group site

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2023
Aware Super's real estate arm, in partnership with Altis Property Partners, has snapped up Crown's Mastery site for $121 million. The 1.7-hectare site located in Sydney's Waterloo is set to be transformed into build-to-rent (BTR) apartments and will ...

NZ Super Fund secures stake in Euroclear

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2023
NZ Super Fund has acquired a 4.99% shareholding in Brussels-based Euroclear, a provider of essential financial markets infrastructure. With assets under custody totalling around €36 trillion and facilitating over €1 quadrillion in annual securities ...

Unlisted asset valuation flaws complicate comparison

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2023
... performance, is a reasonable price, he added. Cbus chief executive Kristian Fok emphasised the need for better communications from super funds. He pointed out the necessity for funds to explain that the information on which they base valuations doesn't ...

ASFA, Super Consumers Australia revise retirement standards

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2023
... inflation drives up the price of everyday items, driving both the Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA) and Super Consumers Australia (SCA) to increase their retirement standards. According to ASFA, the annual expenditure needed to reach ...

ASIC appeal in CBA, CFS case dismissed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2023
... has also now been dismissed. The case was first brought by ASIC in June 2020 and related to the distribution of Essential Super. CBA staff signed up over 390,000 people to CFS's Essential Super between July 2013 and June 2019 in branches and online. ...

Super funds lobby for super tax reform

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2023
Twelve industry super funds have called on the federal government to urgently reform a superannuation tax offset to prevent low-income workers from being penalised. The group of funds, which include Aware Super, Cbus, HESTA, and AustralianSuper, together ...

Super tough sell for First Nations people: Podcast

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... indigenous populations. I think we can say, 'If you've lived in this postcode for five to 10 years, you can access your super at this age'," he said. "That's the attractive part of superannuation, that's how it's pitched; it's ...

Liquidate $250bn Future Fund, says think tank

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2023
Given Australia's economic status, the government has been urged to liquidate the $250 billion Future Fund and pay down its $896 billion debt. According to a paper published by the Centre For Independent Studies, penned by Dimitri Burshtein, the ...