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Mercer stress tests retirement

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
... features a 'stress-test', which helped members to see the impact of stock market movements on their retirement income. "Australians are now more attuned to the impact that share market volatility has on their superannuation balance but we felt it important ...

Super, homes and savings a happy combo

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... Superannuation, bank savings and the family home are some of the key wealth factors linked to greater happiness among Australians, new research shows. The latest AMP.Natsem report notes that spending money wisely can boost happiness and particular types ...

Gen-Y super Individuum shuts down

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... Wealth Management merged in April last year. Individuum was an online financial services provider that targeted Gen-Y Australians. The fund had $6.8 million in funds as at December 2009, according to Rainmaker. All existing member funds were transferred ...

MySuper gets Government tick

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
The Gillard Government has approved the MySuper reforms as part of its agenda to boost Australians' retirement incomes. Over the weekend, Prime Minister Julia Gillard gave the green light to MySuper, with existing super funds able to offer MySuper products ...

Industry backs MySuper reforms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... Financial Advisers (AFA), said the missing ingredient in the government's response is the incentives for ordinary Australians to seek professional financial advice. "We are concerned that Australians may be provided with a false sense of security. The ...

First SG raise costs no more than a cuppa

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... need to recognise that increasing the SG to 12 per cent isn't just about improving the retirement outcomes of all Australians. "It's about strengthening our economy, it's about funding retirees that will support business and it will also boost our national ...

Boring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... managers survey and the University of Michigan consumer sentiment index are all set for release this evening. At least we Australians will have the entire weekend to ponder over the US results while we keep one ear peeled for more leaks from the rat ...

Women in Super help raise $2.1m for breast cancer

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
Australians across the country helped raise $2.1 million for research into the prevention and cure of breast cancer in this year's Women in Super Mother's Day Classic. A record number of 100,000 people took part in the 2010 national fun run/walk and ...

FEAL Conference cuts through the noise

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
More than 250 super fund professionals are set to attend this year's Fund Executives Association Limited (FEAL) Conference, which kicks off next Wednesday and will confront trustees with the question: whose interests are you really serving? The conference ...

ASFA Awards recognise top comms strategies

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
This year super funds created some of the best and brightest communication strategies to come out of the industry in recent years, with the aim of reaching out to members without the super mumbo-jumbo. More than 150 attendees, mostly senior marketing ...