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Qantas Super chief joins ASFA board

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
Qantas Superannuation chief executive Jane Perry has been appointed to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) board. Her previous positions include chief executive of J.P. Morgan Treasury and Securities Services Australia and New ...

Former Hostplus marketing head joins Frontier

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
Frontier Advisors has appointed Wayne Sullivan as its new head of marketing and business development, taking effect from 1 August. Sullivan was previously head of marketing at industry superannuation fund Hostplus and prior to that he worked at Sunsuper ...

Labor completes super agenda with passage of four bills

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
The federal government's superannuation reform agenda is complete following the passage of four bills through the Senate last night. Included in the new laws (listed below) was an increase in concessional contribution caps to $35,000 for people over ...

FSC and ASFA to review SRM

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
The Financial Services Council (FSC) and the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) are reviewing the Standard Risk Measure (SRM) a year after its launch. A full review and analysis of the first phase of the SRM has been scheduled for ...

Next government to reconsider super taxes: Grattan Inst

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
Bringing the commonwealth budget into structural surplus will require the next government to be very different to the Rudd-Gillard and Howard governments, and this will inevitably force a review of superannuation taxes, argued the Grattan Institute ...

Super is working but needs to evolve: ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
The superannuation system is working but is transitioning, according to a report by Deloitte Access Economics that was commissioned by ASFA. The report, 'Maximising Superannuation Capital', released today at the ASFA Investment Interchange seminar ...

APRA delays collection of super reporting form

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has delayed the collection of the Superannuation Reporting Form under the SuperStream reform. APRA had scheduled the beginning of the collection of the form for the first quarter of 2013-2014, but ...

SuperStream data standards superficial

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
SuperStream's data standards only superficially deal with how gateways will interact with each other, according to the SuperStream Gateway Project (SGP). In a newsletter to stakeholders this week the group wrote: "the SuperStream data standards only ...

Tax lump sums to beat longevity crisis: ASFA

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
Imposing higher taxes on taking lump sums from superannuation will encourage members approaching retirement to opt for income streams, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has said in a new whitepaper. Announcing it at its annual ...

Budget gets nod of approval from industry bodies

JAMES FERNYHOUGH, MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
Superannuation industry bodies have responded positively to last night's federal budget, generally agreeing that there were no major surprises. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief executive Pauline Vamos praised the government ...