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MLC head calls for truce after laying blame at industry funds door

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
MLC & NAB Wealth group executive Steve Tucker has called for a truce between industry and retail super funds and said the time has come to "compete on substance rather than rhetoric." While largely supportive of the Government's Stronger Super reforms ...

Boost for corporate sector as Stronger Super details emerge

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... super payments will be commission free. Funds will need to transfer the existing default balances of members to a MySuper product by July 1 2017. The Government said it would consult further on a mechanism to allow this period to be extended in certain ...

FOFA divides on commission

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... group life insurance in all super products, and on commissions on any life insurance policies in a default or MySuper product from July 1 2013. "These reforms will mean that MySuper will be commission-free," Shorten said, with only commissions on individual ...

Super funds urge MySuper rethink

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... between MySuper and other products'. It will stagger MySuper's implementation with not all funds required to have a MySuper product available by July 2013, as originally planned.

Government unveils response to Cooper

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
... Meanwhile, the Government will also stagger MySuper's implementation as not all funds will be required to have a MySuper product by July 2013, which was the original plan. Superannuation minister Bill Shorten unveiled the government's new Stronger Super ...

Get on board super reforms: Shorten

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
Bill Shorten, the newly-appointed Minister for Superannuation and Financial Services, re-affirmed the government's plan to raise SG to 12 per cent and implement key reforms proposed in the Cooper Review. Speaking at an industry luncheon hosted by the ...

Full steam ahead for MySuper

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
Superannuation minister Bill Shorten has cited Australians' concerns that super is too complex as a key reason why MySuper will be implemented as planned. Minister Shorten quoted research from Colmar Brunton that showed consumers generally find information ...

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
Superannuation industry associations have welcomed the government's MySuper reforms but one industry body said more should be done to protect and encourage competition within the market. Pauline Vamos, chief executive at the Association of Superannuation ...

Central plank of Cooper Review is MySuper

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... model," said Fiona Reynolds, AIST chief. "While all sectors of the industry will have to make changes to offer a MySuper product, not-for-profit funds are much closer to the mark than other funds," she said. Reynolds said that the MySuper reforms would ...