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Rest develops ethical option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... spokesperson said: "Many Rest members feel strongly about socially responsible investing (SRI) and are calling on their super funds to make a change. So, we are listening to our members and, for the first time, will be working with them to build a best-of-breed ...

Industry fund names chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... studying an executive MBA at Harvard University. "Katherine has considerable passion for the role of small, specific-industry funds, and will make an important contribution to MIESF in the future," MIESF chair Chris White said. Also commenting, Kaspar ...

ASIC explores value for money in default group insurance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... default insurance and deliver better outcomes for members. According to ASIC's analysis of the claims data from the larger funds, insurers estimated that super members with default insurance will be paid up to 79 cents in claims for each dollar of insurance ...

Government fund awards mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... a larger allocation to multi=asset strategies and a smaller allocation to credit. ESSSuper was one of a number of super funds to terminate AMP Capital as the sole manager of its ethical investment option this year, with Legalsuper and QSuper doing the ...

ISA ramps up campaign against super reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... campaign against the Morrison government's Your Future, Your Super reforms package saying it will only serve to help dud funds. ISA said the reforms package will benefit the big banks and for-profit super sector allowing them to take up to $10 billion ...

How far are we from a trillion-dollar super fund?

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
... will be Aware Super, which Dunnin said it could happen by 2024. Three years from then, in 2027, four other superannuation funds could swell to $200 billion. First in line for this is Hostplus followed by MLC, Sunsuper, Rest and QSuper. UniSuper, Cbus ...

Clive Palmer ramps up calls for Shipton's head

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
... and/or the Palmer United Party and others by authorising the transfer of $10 million contrary to the purpose for which the funds were being held. Around the same period, the regulator alleges Palmer dishonestly obtained benefit or advantage for Media ...

SMSFs dump $30bn in shares

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
Self-managed superannuation funds have not been spared by the market impact of COVID-19, with members dumping their allocation to listed shares over the past year, new data shows. The Australian Taxation Office quarterly statistical report for September ...

Damning Rio report to shake mining industry

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
... of the Juukan Gorge sacred sites has recommended mining companies completely change the way they do business, with super funds invested in miners already welcoming the findings. On 24 May 2020, Rio Tinto destroyed a site that represented 46,000 years ...

Super satisfaction bounces back

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
Member satisfaction with superannuation funds has increased across all sectors for the first time since the pandemic, new research shows. Roy Morgan's latest Superannuation Satisfaction Report reveals overall superannuation satisfaction increased 0.6% ...