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Infocus to provide advice to First Super members

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
Industry Fund Services (IFS) and dealer group Infocus Wealth Management will provide full financial advice services to First Super members. Under the arrangement, Infocus' financial advisers based in Adelaide will travel to locations around South Australia ...

Retail super bounces back

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
The SelectingSuper MySuper (ie Workplace) rolling 12 month performance index made a remarkable recovery during January as it surged 320 basis points to reach 11.5%, with retail MySuper products stretching their short term segment lead to 0.7%. Three ...

Equip Super partners with SuperFriend

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
Equip Super has partnered with SuperFriend to offer workplace mental health and wellbeing programs. The industry super fund has added the programs to its range of employer and member services, which focuses on forging alliances that can broaden the ...

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 ...