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Super funds out-perform TDs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... are now almost two-thirds higher than their cash term deposit counterparts. SelectingSuper has just reported that the workplace default option index for the 12 months to end August 2012 skyrocketed in August to 6.8%, the highest it has been in more than ...

Enduring baby boomers redefine retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... expectancy well into their mid 90s. "Planning for retirement was never an issue before, people expected to drop dead in their workplace." The question for people servicing and providing services to these people, says Salt is what retirees will do with ...

Super fees are falling but only just

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... costing the Australian nation $47bn per year, which is about 4% of GDP or more than twice the national defence budget. "Workplace fund total expense ratios (TER) were found to average 1.38%, personal fund TERs 2.01%, retirement fund TERs 1.84%, ERFs ...

Fund returns recover to 3.1%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
The SelectingSuper workplace default option index surged in July, with the rise sufficient to push rolling 12 month returns up to 3.1% - their highest level in 11 months. The strong bounce-back was triggered by the 4.2% July monthly return from the ...

AMP training program to attract women advisers

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... commit to its existing 10 week Horizons' signature program and full-time schedule. It comprises formal learning and workplace development, culminating in official status as an AMP representative. AMP Horizons director Tim Steele said the new initiative ...

Super FUM hits $1.4 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... superannuation market averaged 0.7% for 2011-12, remarkably similar to the 0.5% average SelectingSuper default option return in workplace funds, albeit the former is an economic measure and not an actual investment return metric. The APRA report also ...

MySuper flipping ban passes lower house

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... Adam Bandt to stop employers gouging additional fees, by changing employees' superannuation funds after they leave the workplace was successfully added to the legislation, before being passed yesterday. "By 'flipping' funds between products without permission ...

Shorten reins in employer involvement in default super

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... yesterday pointed to a joint submission to the Commission made by Treasury and the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) last week, which moves to rule out the provision that would allow employers to select an alternative ...

Fear for financial future reigns

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... also point to particular difficulty employee's experience - within the current economic climate -delivering sustainable workplace productivity. The study also shows that more than half (51%) of Australian employees are working longer hours and this trend ...

FINSIA calls on regulators for workplace diversity

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... Australasia calls on regulators to encourage companies to develop measurable objectives to assess their progress on workplace diversity and gender pay parity. The call for regulatory attention on these issues comes after the Financial Services Institute ...