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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 ...

Super ESG options can outperform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
The average ESG investment option offered by Australia's superannuation funds outperformed the average MySuper default product in the 12 months to 30 September. Rainmaker analysis shows 68 super funds currently offer a total of 639 ESG investment options ...

Scrapping LRBAs would be detrimental to investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
A commercial property lender believes banning limited recourse borrowing arrangements in their entirety would be too heavy handed, saying critics often cite residential property spruikers to cast shadows. Thinktank chief executive Jonathan Street said ...

Assistant Treasurer warns super funds to lift engagement game

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... accounts, although improving from a high of 3.1 accounts in 2009. Young super fund members aged between 18 and 25 typically default to new accounts as they move through various casual jobs. This lasts well into members' mid-40s, the Commission said ...

AustralianSuper to cut equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
The $142 billion superannuation fund is trimming stocks in its default option, as it moves from a growth outlook to a more neutral one. Speaking at a members' forum in Sydney last night, AustralianSuper chief investment officer Mark Delaney said ...

Productivity Commission counters group insurance research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... the next 10 years, this would free the Government of outlays between $650 million and $1.85 billion in the absence of default group insurance. Separately, Rice Warner analysis found that removing insurance from superannuation would result in a net cost ...