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Choice products not so choice: APRA

CHLOE WALKER, KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
Several superannuation funds that flunked the inaugural Your Future, Your Super test, are also failing Choice members, the latest APRA heatmaps reveal. The prudential regulator slapped retail and industry superannuation funds alike with the lowest grade ...

Prime Minister announces reverse mortgage scheme

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021
... better quality of life in their retirement and using that equity in their own home to be able to achieve. Now, it's a choice. It's an option for them and it's there to give people that opportunity." The new scheme will be a re-naming of the ...

CFS extends SimCorp partnership

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2021
... opportunity to halve the time it takes to invest our customers' funds. When a customer wants to change their investment choice, we will make the change more efficiently, ensuring there is no time when clients' funds are out of the market," Morgan said. ...

AIOFP blasts 'elitist' young advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2021
... Liberal donors and all forms of insurance was high on the list. Financial starvation and intimidation were their weapons of choice, and it was expertly implemented at the expense of an industry wide mental health pandemic," Johnston said. "The EYFA fraternity ...

BT cuts super fees by $20m

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2021
BT Financial Group cut fees for its MySuper and Choice members, almost halving their dollar-based annual administration fee from $108 to $56. BT said more than 470,000 members will have an automatic reduction in their annual administration fee from ...

Super funds lambasted over nuclear holdings

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
... some exclude controversial weapons but not nuclear weapons from their ethical options. According to the report, ANZ Smart Choice Super, IOOF and MLC Super have no exclusions at all. "With just over two dozen companies involved in nuclear weapons production ...

Takeovers Panel weighs in on WAM takeover

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
... in a disappointing manner by "illegally buying more shares" and breaching the 3% creep provision, and was left with no choice but to take the matters to the Takeovers Panel. PGF and PAF are managed by PM Capital, owned and founded by Paul Moore. On September ...

The dark side of super switching: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2021
... outcomes for members." Iress chief executive Andrew Walsh explained that while it is positive that members have freedom of choice, super funds could be doing more to educate members on the impact switching can have on their retirement savings over the ...

APRA tells Christian Super to merge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2021
... their superannuation fund," Piper said. "It is my sincere hope that the super system of tomorrow retains the variety of choice we have today for Australians who want to invest in line with their values. This is what we'll be working towards on behalf ...

Goldman Sachs backs disability housing scheme in $137m deal

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2021
... "Continued investment in this sector will improve the lives of Australians living with a disability by giving them greater choice and control in their housing options."