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Frontier appoints new chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2022
... Prevention Australia and Assemble. She is also a non-executive director of Reinsurance Group of America ANZ and State Trustees. Previously, she was on the board of HESTA for more than 25 years. During that time, she also served on the boards of VicSuper ...

July 1 super changes: Are you ready?

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2022
... Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 also takes effect July 1. It imposes a new obligation upon superannuation fund trustees, other than SMSFs, to develop, implement and regularly review a retirement income strategy for members who are retired ...

Retirement Income Covenant a win for advisers - but for how long?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2022
... sector - but maybe not in the way you might immediately think. The Retirement Income Covenant requires superannuation trustees to design a strategy for catering to retiree members. Under the legislation, these strategies must help members achieve and ...

Performance test comms criticised

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2022
ASIC is warning super trustees to ensure they communicate upcoming performance test outcomes correctly to members, saying some of the funds that failed the test last year also failed to adequately inform members. The regulator has reviewed the performance ...

Super trustees face rough seas ahead: Byres

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2022
... Trans-Tasman Business Circle 'Meet the regulators' event, APRA chair Wayne Byres said to expect the performance of super trustees to continue to be the subject of intense scrutiny. On APRA's latest priorities, Byres said that even though ...

Active Super kickstarts reward program

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2022
Active Super has launched a Super Booster reward program to accelerate the growth of members' super balances. The Super Booster reward program is a 'set and forget' tool for members to top-up their super balances with eligible retail purchases. ...

SMSF assets climb to $892bn

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2022
... proportion of SMSF members being in the pension phase. The survey report said: "The current environment has left SMSF trustees with very few options in terms of investment choices for immediate liquidity." "Due to current interest rate settings, short-term ...

Stagflation: What should we expect?

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) ASI 2022 conference, a panel of economic experts shared their views on the current stagflationary environment. "Inflation's certainly here to stay in the near term," QIC chief ...

The big case for big data

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
... superannuation fund industry, according to investment strategy experts. A session at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees ASI Conference revealed the many benefits of data backed science and why investment professionals should not overlook ...

You can't have it all: Retirement income strategies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
... don't necessarily reflect members needs or desires. Appearing on a panel at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees' ASI Conference on the Gold Coast, Spirit Super manager, product and innovation Ruvinda Nanayakkara pointed out the inherent ...