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Super guarantee charge bundled by red tape repeals

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015
... around nine months' worth of super for someone on average weekly earnings. The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and Cbus have opposed the SGC amendments citing Australian National Audit Office figures that between 2010 and 2014 ...

Digital evolution highlighted at AIST awards

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) recognised clever use of data segmentation and social media campaigns to improve female member engagement at its annual Awards for Excellence. AIST chief executive Tom Garcia said this year's ...

Labor opposes super trustee governance bill

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
... political intervention of APRA member Helen Rowell" who delivered a speech at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) Governance Ideas Exchange Forum in Melbourne last month. The Senators said that under direct questioning at the committee's ...

FEATURE: The circle of life

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... this evolving market. Earlier this year a joint paper by AustralianSuper and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) suggested the nation's super system is more than four decades from maturity. The view has merit in the sense there ...

Future Fund's morphing objective

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... obligations but are not bound by laws administered by the superannuation regulator APRA that apply to regular superannuation trustees. The Future Fund and the management agency that oversees it has become a highly successful investment group growing ...

Beware 'apples with apples' super comparisons

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) member Helen Rowell told an Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) Governance Ideas Exchange Forum that on a number of occasions in the last few years she has "noted that comparisons of ...

Retirement incomes become industry focus

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... industry is set up, this is just not feasible. "That's one of the reasons why it won't be compulsory for superannuation trustees to provide income stream products in retirement because they [government] want to ensure the market is opened up." The ASFA ...

FEATURE: Reshaping insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... more aware of the problem of underinsurance and its cost to the community. As Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees executive manager business and operations services Maryann Mannix-White noted at the same event, "The cost of underinsurance ...

Super funds eye impact investing structures

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... obligations," he said, adding: "there is a deeper thing; the Sole Purpose Test that defines the obligations of superannuation trustees was defined when the size of the super system was negligible compared to the rest of the economy. "The extraordinary ...

Insurance premiums should be questioned

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... superannuation funds. Media Super deputy chief executive, Michael Rooney, told an Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) event this week that at one point insurance was seen as an opportunity to keep members on the books rather than as ...