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Bendigo and Adelaide Bank establishes new super trustee

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2022
... been established in order to comply with a legislative change that requires trustees of a registerable superannuation entity (RSE) to have no other duty other than acting for its beneficiaries." Recent legislative conditions that have been imposed on ...

'No easy answer' to ESG disclosures by super fund trustees

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2022
... endorse responsible ESG investment principles. On super fund trustees' ESG disclosures, the report asserted: "In our experience, RSE licensees engage with the risks from climate change in multiple ways across their investment portfolios, and in their ...

Thirty-eight super funds face sustainability issues: APRA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2022
... successor fund delivered the greatest savings at almost 2.5 times greater than where the successor fund was a small or medium RSE. Where the successor is large, an individual member saved about $48 in administration fees each year and $78 in total fees ...

Funds need retirement income strategy by July

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... to beneficiaries during the accumulation phase about potential income in retirement. "APRA and ASIC acknowledge that many RSE licensees will have a strong understanding of their members' needs already and may have already operated in the retirement income ...

APRA to continue scrutiny of trustees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2022
... eradicating unacceptable product performance. Released yesterday, APRA said it will continue to exercise its powers to ensure RSE licensees are doing right by members. Throughout the year, APRA's supervisors will target trustees identified in 2021 as ...

APRA questions trustees on financial resilience

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
... it has identified several issues in this space, meaning improvements need to be made. Some of the issues identified include RSE licensees not being sure of appropriate reserve target amounts and a lack of clearly articulated processes for periodic reviews ...

Unlisted asset valuation processes largely inadequate: APRA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021
... members. It also found instances of chief investment officers spearheading valuation decisions. APRA said it found that, "while RSE licensees generally reacted promptly to the crisis, few had robust, pre-existing frameworks for implementing, monitoring ...

No proof of member benefit: APRA on super fund spends

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2021
... of members, including sponsorship deals and advertising spends with no evidence of member benefit. Releasing its review of RSE licensee marketing expenditure, it found instances of failure to actually measure and assess the benefits of expenditure on ...

ASIC calls for stronger whistleblowing policies

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021
... that reflects the strengthened whistleblower protection regime that started on 1 July 2019. "We call on chief executives and RSE trustees to discuss this letter within your organisation and to think about the culture of speaking up in your workplace. ...

Failing Asgard super option to close

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2021
... Super's MySuper were among the 13 products that failed the performance test at August end. BT's Retirement Wrap is the RSE for both. According to the ATO's new YourSuper tool, the Asgard option that's closing has returned 7.9% over seven ...