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AFA rejects criticism over grandfathered commissions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... and Henhouse' advertising campaign, saying it served to detrimentally impact consumer confidence in the overall superannuation system. "Consumers should rightly assume that their money in their superannuation account is safe. This advertisement clearly ...

Super fund appoints from JP Morgan

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
A $9 billion industry superannuation fund has appointed JP Morgan's vice president of communications to lead its brand and marketing. Melissa Adam is heading to NGS Super after working at JP Morgan as a vice president marketing communications corporate ...

ASIC hires from Link Group

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
ASIC has hired a senior specialist in its investment managers and superannuation team from Link Group, the two parties confirmed. Melissa Birks was Link Group's in industry initiatives manager. She had been in the role since 2016. Prior to this, she ...

DomaCom concludes Federal Court action

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... concluding that the leasing of the residential property held by the sub-fund to a child of a member of the Benson Family Superannuation Fund was a breach of the sole purpose test. Commenting on the decision, DomaCom chief executive Arthur Naoumidis said ...

Industry veterans join global commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... group as one of 22 commissioners is Utilities Trust of Australia (UTA) chairman Robert Jolly, as is New Zealand Superannuation Fund head of responsible investment Anne-Maree O'Connor. Australian Senator and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Marise Payne ...

CommInsure, TAL engaged in troubling conduct: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... pursue an insurance claim for the benefit of a beneficiary" and contravened section 52, subsection (7)(d) of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act. Costello added it was open to the Commissioner to find Rest may have engaged in conduct falling ...

Industry body names first chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... Microsoft, CSIRO, Aon, Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCAL) and the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia. RegTech Association chair Julian Fenwick said it is especially pleasing to name Young as the association's ...

Royal Commission hears industry fund admitted wrongdoing to ASIC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
A $52 billion industry superannuation fund admitted to inadvertently breaching the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act (SIS Act) in a breach report filed with ASIC on the penultimate day of the Royal Commission's sixth round of hearings. Making ...

AI Group pushes back against super gender gap reforms

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
The Australian Industry Group (AI Group) believes Labor's proposal to remove the $450 superannuation guarantee threshold will add more to employer costs than the retirement incomes of women. AI Group chief executive Innes Willox said Labor's ...

Don't use multiple SMSFs to dodge tax: ATO

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
... fund trustees are using multiple SMSFs to manipulate tax outcomes, Australian Taxation Office deputy commissioner superannuation James O'Halloran said in his speech to the National SMSF Conference in Melbourne. The ATO believes 13,600 trustees have more ...