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Women in Super: A year of accomplishments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... system]," she said. More than 600 guests attended the luncheon, which was held at the Hyatt regency in Sydney last Friday. The funds raised will go towards the Sydney Women's Fund and their Future Change Maker Scholarship Program.

Grow Super hires Qantas Super executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... million (as at June end) of superannuation assets. "We are having a couple of active discussions with other superannuation funds and expect to finalise the divestment by early 2020 through a successor fund transfer," Grow Super chief executive Josh Wilson ...

Fee cuts at super fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... pension options, in addition to the above accumulation products. The cost of fee cuts Australian Ethical had $2.82 billion in funds under management at June end; this includes its superannuation and managed fund options. During the year it reported an ...

Rest climate risk case goes to trial

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... investment managers." Rest does not offer carbon neutral or sustainable investment options to members in the way that some funds do. However, the fund is a member of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment and says it is strengthening ...

Tasplan chief to exit, merger confirmed

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... years in the role and cede the chairmanship of the merged fund to current Tasplan Chair Naomi Edwards. In June, the two funds said they had entered into a binding Memorandum of Understanding to investigate a possible merger that would see the creation ...

Super fund PDSs to include single cost of product figure

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
ASIC has updated its guidance to superannuation funds and issuers of managed investment products on fees and cost disclosure, with a suite of new requirements set to apply from late-2020. The corporate regulator released an updated version of Regulatory ...

Planners heed SMSF risk warning

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... and some of the things we're seeing at the moment include cases where there's no strategy, we see 0-100, we see funds that will cause huge problems if the property devalues and there's no capacity for contributions to cover shortfall - the ...

Don't over-interpret OECD super fee figures

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... running pension plans." In his maiden speech to the annual ASFA Conference earlier this month, Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chief executive Martin Fahy noted the figures from the report, and said that according to the OECD Australia ...

Industry's Best of the Best celebrated

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... different superannuation needs than men," Snyder said. "It was a common sense decision to show young Australians that there are funds out there looking after their best interests, which is what our awards reveal across every category." PM Capital also ...

FSC hails super choice amendments

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... guarantee entitlement is paid into - were vital. "It's unacceptable that even today, when there is so much pressure on super funds to modernise and be more efficient, a worker can arrive at a new job only to find they must open a new superannuation account ...