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MLC Asset Management appoints fixed income head

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... delayed beyond this financial year due to a challenging business environment. MLC Wealth includes the bank's superannuation, platform, asset management and advice businesses. The bank made several changes to the wealth business's leadership last ...

SMSF Association chair gets new gig

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
The chair of the SMSF Association has joined a technical specialist to lead its growth plans. Self-managed superannuation technical specialist Heffron has appointed Andrew Hamilton as director of strategy and growth. Hamilton is currently chair of the ...

Early access to super scheme results in permanent ban

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
ASIC has permanently banned the man behind Superfunded, an illegal early access to superannuation scheme in Perth. Mark Goldenberg was chief operating officer, general manager and property analyst of Superfunded. His scheme enabled people to use their ...

Foreign fund managers granted licensing relief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
... so. Clients they would be able to work with include responsible entities of registered schemes and trustees of superannuation funds, pooled super trusts and public sector super funds, so long as they have over $10 million. Additionally, the updated regime ...

Lack of independence must be made clear: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... "express written authority" to the entity that controls the account. ASIC also recommended changes to the SIS Act for superannuation trustees, following the recommendations from the Royal Commission that advice fees from super choice accounts be renewed ...

Mercer chief executive to step down

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... year tenure as head of the firm's Australian operations on April 30. Mercer head of industry and public sector superannuation Jo-Anne Bloch will step into Walsh's vacant role in the interim, with the former Financial Planning Association of Australia ...

Superannuation fund hits brakes on raise

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
A start-up superannuation fund looking to raise fresh funds has postponed its plans to after June. Future Super met with strategic investors in financial services and impact investing earlier this year as it looked to kick start a capital raise for ...

Latest data reveals super admin problem

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
Around half of complaints received about superannuation are to do with account administration issues, according to latest data from AFCA. The Australian Financial Complaints Authority's (AFCA) Datacube revealed out of the 2220 complaints received about ...

InPayTech's ClickSuper grows

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
InPayTech's superannuation payment solution has picked up new payroll provider clients, as cybercrime continues to threaten the super sector. The payment technology company has confirmed seven new payroll providers have joined the firm's integrated ...

BT's transition not so super

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
Some superannuation members are complaining of laggard customer service and reduced benefits, as BT transitions about 280,000 accounts to its new product. In November, BT said it would migrate members in BT Lifetime Super - Employer Plan (LSEP) and ...