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Future Super ramps up direct equities

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
Ethical superannuation fund Future Super has increased its exposure to direct equities while staying true to its investment strategy. The fund has traditionally had almost all of its Australian equities exposure through the BetaShares Australian Sustainability ...

ATO announces SMSF age limit changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has confirmed changes to age limits on super contributions for SMSFs. The ATO the changes have been made as part of its Superannuation - improving flexibility for older Australians measure. Changes, which were effective ...

Aussies reevaluate retirement prospects

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
New research has revealed Australians are feeling significantly less confident about their retirement prospects, with many fearing they will have to work longer in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. Surveying 1000 Australians in June, the CFS Retirement ...

Morrison's legacy will be retirement poverty: ACTU

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... assistant secretary Scott Connolly said. "This scheme is having a disastrous impact on the retirement savings of women and young people, but is being used as a tax minimisation tool by the wealthy." He said that the reason 2.5 million Australians have ...

Spaceship Super gets boost from Voyager

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
Spaceship chief executive Andrew Moore says its managed investments business has been the "single, strongest" source of growth for its $300 million superannuation fund. Spaceship, which started out as a superannuation fund in 2017, added a managed funds ...

Insurance premiums soar at Qantas Super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
Customers of Qantas Super will see their insurance premiums rise substantially come 1 August 2020 now that the super fund has officially switched insurers to MetLife. The fund blamed a range of factors for the increase, mostly surrounding the effects ...

Financial institution charged over Epstein scandal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... including: payments to individuals who were publicly alleged to have been Epstein's co-conspirators in sexually abusing young women; settlement payments totaling over US$7 million, as well as dozens of payments to law firms totaling over US$6 million ...

ERS surges $7bn in a week

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
Early Release of Super payments surged around $7 billion in the first week of July, according to Treasury estimates, but this may not be a reason to panic. Treasury estimates a further $7 billion was wiped from super funds as the second tranche of applications ...

Pinnacle appoints chief financial officer

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
... with Price Bailey as a manager, Credit Suisse as head of client accounting for its fund administration business and Ernst & Young as an executive. Pinnacle's investment boutiques collectively manage $57 billion across a range of asset classes. It ...

CountPlus firm buys back equity

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... linked to incentive criteria to be made in 12 months. "This acquisition provides Twomeys a strategic growth opportunity in Young, NSW, that will complement the firm's existing client footprint in Cootamundra, Harden and Cowra," CountPlus said in ...