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HESTA asks Retirement Income Review to consider ERS

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... paid on Commonwealth Paid Parental Leave, unpaid caring roles be recognised, superannuation entitlements be provided to workers who are not classified as employees and/or perform non-standard work, and the "value of insurance in super for low income ...

AIST celebrates Trustee of the Year

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... Smith was a "champion of the member" and paid tribute to his attitude and desire towards improving super for low income workers, women and other vulnerable groups. Smith's widow, Alana Smith, thanked the super sector for recognising the efforts and ...

Which is the most important letter in ESG?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... and communication services sectors." In the sectors where the S score was very important, that was found to relate to workers' safety and labour relations.

Financial services demands more mental health support

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... to mental health during the crisis, with experts shedding light on how heavily the pandemic was impacting the sector's workers. In a separate piece, Financial Standard zeroed in on how the financial advice sector is helping advisers approach their mental ...

ISA plays devil's advocate on SG

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
... superannuation guarantee debate, finding the costs of an increase in mandated savings may be shared between both employers and workers. A piece of internal analysis put together by ISA senior analyst Bruce Bastian shows that the cost of increasing the ...

FSU calls for NAB staff to audit pay

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
... Queensland secretary Wendy Streets said the union had pressured NAB to investigate the remuneration of contracted Group 3 and 4 workers earlier this year "This has been a long-running issue with workers at NAB concerned they had not been properly paid ...

SuperFriend refreshes leadership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
An AustralianSuper group executive has been added to the leadership of the wealth management industry's mental health partner, SuperFriend. AustralianSuper group executive of membership Rose Kerlin has joined the board of SuperFriend, following the ...

Industry funds continue risk-adjusted domination

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... performance and relationships with volatility risk measures. The super fund for Western Australia's local government workers, WA Super, took the top combined risk adjusted position in the three years to March 2020, thanks to a 4.6% p.a. three-year ...

Life insurance salary guide for 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... the pool of established life assessors becoming smaller, we are seeing a big rise in insurers hiring candidates from the workers compensation/ allied health pool as the next best option," the recruiter said. "Many of these candidates either have extremely ...

Labor calls for end to war on super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... ownership of Australia's farms. "Here we have the opposite - Australian businesses owned by the savings of Australian workers through their superannuation," he says. Jones claims the government is "paving the way" for the introduction of a plan formulated ...