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Corporate super adviser body beefs up to face challenges

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
... relevant to their interest in the fund. Latto said that the CSSA is now focused on improving financial education in the workplace and that "members are working with employers and policy committees all the time, to ensure their employees are getting the ...

Performance competition returning to default super

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2015
... debut of life stage investing. SelectingSuper's December performance figures released end last month showed that retail workplace funds as a sector had, for the first time in two years, out-pointed not-for-profit (NFP) funds, albeit the margin was a ...

Consumers need super default safety net: ISA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... forces in superannuation "have led to perverse outcomes." "Workers whose superannuation contributions were placed in workplace default funds have achieved better performance on average over the longer term than workers who made active choices about where ...

Future Fund smashes its performance target in 2014

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... sovereign wealth fund earned 13.2% for the 12 months to end December compared to the 8.3% delivered by the SelectingSuper Workplace default super fund index. The massive out-performance dwarfs the impact of the Future Fund's zero taxation rate and low ...

Boutique corporate super realigns following MySuper

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... realignment as some boutique groups have used the introduction of MySuper as an opportunity to move away from default workplace superannuation in favour of more choice-oriented sectors better suited to high touch advice. Rainmaker said these groups include ...

Compare the pair ads fail to excite members

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
... superannuation fund communications and marketing, 8.9% of respondents said by email, while 4.9% preferred newspapers, 4.6% workplace visits and 2.6% magazines. Only 1.1% preferred television advertising, a category that ranked eighth, only above sponsorship ...

Industry braces for majority independent directors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... interest." If implemented, this policy would bring Australian superannuation funds out of step with the standard structure of workplace pension funds globally, which generally operate under an equal representation model. While the report acknowledged ...

Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... hasn't lowered fees but because it hasn't lowered them enough. Given that MySuper has already taken a sledgehammer to workplace super fund fees (especially those charged by retail groups) for the FSI to say this is stunning. So expect a ramp up in indexed ...

Women-led companies better for investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... shows that investors make more money investing in women-lead enterprises. The scorecard, released by the Australian Workplace Gender Equality Agency that was established by the previous Gillard government to monitor gender participation in the economy ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... Financial Services Council head John Brogden delivers a speech to the Australian Business Economists conference, and Workplace Gender Equality Agency director Helen Conway is to speak at an Australian British Chamber of Commerce lunch, all in Sydney. ...