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ASFA, ISA, FSC weigh in on the final report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... was disappointed with the Productivity Commission doubling down on the best-in-show list as a mechanism for allocating default super. "This approach risks creating an oligopoly in default superannuation and reducing long-term competition." The report ...

ASIC to examine super fund and employer connections

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... shine its regulatory light on how deals are struck between employers and super funds in Australia, after a year in which default superannuation arrangements were a point of focus. According to the report, ASIC's investigation is set to examine how employers ...

ACCC close to approving tobacco-free certification

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 DEC 2018
... representative of her superannuation fund she learned that some of her money was flowing to tobacco companies through the default options. "I thought it was a very bad fit for me as a cancer doctor. I had watched hundreds of people die from tobacco-related ...

Super funds edge towards a flat 2018

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 DEC 2018
... since January. However, some funds were able to manage the downside well. Recording this is the SelectingSuper MySuper/Default index, which fell 3.2% in October and lost all its gains since January 2018. Rainmaker Information, the research house behind ...

Lifecycle super can be better: Frontier

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... particularly bad - but it should improve outcomes for most members and engage them. "It becomes clear the main weakness in a default lifecycle strategy lies in its blunt mass customisation approach. However, the counter argument is that the idea of MySuper ...

Chief economist update: Aussie property market drop becoming self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
We got chills, they're multiplying... How could something so good turn out to be so bad? It was all very good just as 2017 was turning into 2018... so good, that financial markets were pencilling in exit strategies from the world's major economies ...

Superannuation fund comparison tool launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2018
... Roll-it Super after he lost $50,000 of his own super when his employer unintentionally invested him in an under-performing default fund. MacLeod spent more than 11 years at Computershare working in senior managerial roles across strategy, sales and marketing ...

Industry fund CIO resigns

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... always championed retirement outcomes, notably helping the fund collaborate with the industry to develop the Members' Default Utility Function (MDUF), an open-architecture metric to assist the industry to design retirement outcome solutions," it ...

Government amends key super reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... Robert said the move follows feedback from stakeholders that workers in dangerous occupations are likely to benefit from default insurance in super as they likely otherwise face barriers to accessing insurance. Occupations that would receive the exception ...

Vale Paul Costello

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... chair of the investment committee, he helped develop a fully integrated investment platform, a new lifecycle option for default members, an enhanced approach to currency management and an improved retirement option," a Qantas Super statement said. "He ...