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PROFILE: State Street Global Advisors CEO Lochiel Crafter

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... someone mostly focused on building portfolios and delivering returns, realising the importance of the human element in the workplace has been the hardest - but most valuable - career lesson. Born in a small village in South Australia, Crafter moved to ...

Research contradicts group risk claims crisis

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... whole-of-industry scale. For death/TPD cover, average sum insured per dollar weekly premium for a 40 year old low risk Workplace member in 2014 is $62,249 - up 2% on last year and 5% in five years. For death-only cover the sum insured per dollar weekly ...

Super returns dampen but still double digit

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
The SelectingSuper Workplace rolling 12 month default option index dampened further during April to return 11.1%, down from 12.6% at end March, 12.8% at end February which was up marginally from 12.5% at end January. According to the figure at end December ...

PE outperforms ASX and super funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... compared to 20% for S&P/ASX 300. These figures are also significantly ahead of the 16% achieved by the SelectingSuper workplace default fund index. AVCAL chief executive, Yasser El-Ansary, said, "This is a good set of numbers. The index has shown strong ...

Raise preservation age with some exceptions: FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... exhaust their superannuation before they are eligible for the Age Pension. "Australia experienced a revolution in the workplace which allowed the participation rate for women to increase from 45 per cent to 59 per cent over 30 years. We need a similar ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Businesses offered $10k to hire over-50s

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... suggests cash bonuses don't work in isolation. We need a suite of measures that tackle community attitudes, promote workplace flexibility and remove the legal barriers to employment that mature age people face," he said.

ISA and FSC prepare for Federal Court clash

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... Services Council (FSC) and Industry Super Australia (ISA) looks likely over the Fair Work Commission's (FWC) involvement in workplace superannuation. The FSC yesterday lodged an application with the Federal Court of Australia challenging the validity ...

'Choice' dashboard, portfolio disclosure delayed to 2015

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... in March this year announcing it will delay introduction of some of its new data collections associated with choice workplace super funds. Criticism of portfolio disclosure has meanwhile gathered pace as more global investment managers and administrators ...

Super on track for double-digit year

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
The SelectingSuper Workplace rolling 12 month default option index dampened slightly during March to return 12.6%, pointing to 2013-14 being on-track to be another double-digit performance year. The March 12 month performance figure is, however, down ...