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Jeremy Cooper explores the inconvenient truth of super

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
Challenger retirement income chair Jeremy Cooper believes the superannuation industry and its regulators need to address an inconvenient truth: the system is wholly unprepared for retirees. Speaking at the Financial Services Council Retirement Income ...

HESTA announces life insurance facelift

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
Industry superannuation fund HESTA is enhancing its life insurance offer, including a shift to age-based pricing that will be effective 1 March 2018. Among the changes, HESTA has also bolstered its income protection cover to include a lump sum provision ...

ATO warns SMSFs about risky arrangements

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
The Australian Taxation Office issued a stark warning to self-managed superannuation fund members about entering risky retirement planning arrangements that could potentially be illegal. ATO deputy commissioner James O'Halloran urged SMSF trustees to ...

LGIAsuper grows executive team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... legislation introduced in the Queensland parliament in June 2016, LGIAsuper alongside another Queensland government superannuation fund in QSuper, announced to open the membership to public offer from 30 June 2017. At the time, former LGIAsuper chair ...

SuperFriend welcomes new director

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
A mental health foundation that works with profit-to-member superannuation funds has appointed its first independent, non-executive director to the board. Megan Bonny joins SuperFriend with more than 20 years' experience in managing communications and ...

Super funds driving PE growth: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
Superannuation funds' appetite for domestic private equity investments has reached new heights not seen since 2007, a new industry report shows. Australian superannuation funds ploughed $676 million of capital in private equity over the 2017 financial ...

Financial Executive Women grows advisory board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
... and promising future leaders. "They come from all sectors within financial services - banking, wealth management, superannuation, and insurance. Our corporate sponsors are some of Australia's most successful organisations, and are all committed to making ...

Advice the face of wealth management evolution

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
... that it has preserved the rich." The former AustralianSuper board member said it has also been difficult for large superannuation funds to build advice divisions that have the scale to service every member. This said, Howes said the way forward was for ...

SelectingSuper winners crowned

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
Australia's largest superannuation fund was named Fund of the Year at the annual Rainmaker SelectingSuper Awards. Alongside industry leaders at a ceremony in Melbourne this morning, AustralianSuper was recognised for its standout performance in delivering ...

Financial services industry welcomes 'Yes' result

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2017
... commitment," he added. In the lead up to the announcement, more than 60 major financial services institutions - including superannuation funds AustralianSuper and HESTA, banking institutions CBA and Westpac, and investment managers BT Financial Group ...