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CMSF closes with focus on policy

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... delegates attend 66 sessions and listen to over 60 speakers and chairs over the course of three days. AIST chief executive Tom Garcia set the tone of the conference with his initial speech by saying that the not-for-profit super sector needs to "think ...

Government "tinkering" tops super industry worries

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... need to protect members against) and regulation will be aimed at addressing these critical member risks." AIST CEO Tom Garcia said that it is no surprise that some respondents worry that the Government will increasingly look at super as a source of revenue ...

Vale Mavis Robertson AM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... (ICGN). In 1994, she was awarded membership of the Order of Australia for her services to the superannuation industry. Tom Garcia, AIST chief executive said: "Mavis Robertson was a remarkable person who never lost sight of the social policy side of superannuation ...

Funds urge government to reject lift of super threshold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
... be entitled to superannuation payments," the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) chief executive Tom Garcia said. "Any move to raise the exemption threshold would unfairly penalise low income workers and those in precarious employment ...

AIST and Mercer launch new super tracker

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015
... superannuation system, including the ability to see how potential changes will affect this system. AIST chief executive Tom Garcia said the initiative will have the ability to track the super gender gap, overall adequacy of super, as well as the fairness ...

Industry funds reject majority independent directors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and Industry Super Australia (ISA) firmly opposed the recommendation, with AIST chief executive Tom Garcia saying: "There is no evidence to suggest that forcing structural change to the boards of not-for-profit funds would ...

Govt moves to repeal super payslip disclosure rules

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... employer, possibly because they don't want to jeopardise their job (and payslip reporting is unlikely to change that)." But Tom Garcia, chief executive of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees, argued that the law should be protected and ...

Advisers must attend ethics classes, say ISA and AIST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... consumer protections that remove conflicts of interest are the foundation for community trust." AIST chief executive Tom Garcia, who worked in financial advice before moving to AIST, said: "We need to move with the times and incorporate solid ethics ...

Super fees drop as fund war rolls on

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... can't eat fees, they need net returns." The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) chief executive Tom Garcia said that one strategy to lower fees is "moving to a more passive investment regime, which might not be ideal for members." ...

SG frozen till 2021, industry 'dismayed'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... superannuation industry has condemned the move across the board. Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees chief executive Tom Garcia said the Government's decision "represented a broken election promise not to bring in any negative changes to ...