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What you read in 2019: Superannuation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
The past year has served as the beginning of the superannuation industry's transformation. Yes, recent years have seen nothing but reform after reform, but 2019 has been something different entirely. The Productivity Commission and Royal Commission ...

More MySuper accounts close than open: APRA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
Latest data from APRA shows more MySuper accounts closed in the last financial year than were opened. According to APRA's annual MySuper statistics, about 2,151,403 new MySuper accounts were created in the 2018/19 financial year. However, about 2,189,859 ...

New head for Sydney Stock Exchange

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
The Sydney Stock Exchange (SSX) has announced Michael Go as its new chief executive. Go joined the SSX earlier this year after working as head of trading for Thomson Reuters in Hong Kong since 2015. Prior to that Go held positions as head of markets ...

Westpac directors slammed

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2019
Social enterprise Women on Boards has demanded that more heads roll, ahead of Westpac's AGM in Sydney today. Ruth Medd, who co-founded Women on Boards, made the remarks as a long-term shareholder in Westpac and experienced chair and non-executive director. ...

Industry fund members targeted

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
Members of a $6 billion industry superannuation fund are being targeted by aggressive cold calls pushing them to roll over their super into another fund. TWUSUPER has shared that some of its members have received unwanted phone calls from salespeople ...

Advice dealer group rebrands

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2019
... find their way and deliver what is required of them. Sargon chief executive Phillip Kingston added the company is excited to roll out its technological capabilities within advice. "Improving financial capability and engagement is core to Sargon's purpose. ...

ASIC takes action against former AMP adviser

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2019
... 50 investors targeted for their ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The corporate regulator alleges investors were pushed to roll their superannuation savings into new self-managed super funds, before investing in the scheme through a loan. ASIC's allegations ...

Super funds to crack 13% by year end, retail leading

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2019
... to approach returns last seen six years ago (in 2013), as the market correction of last year's November and December roll out of the one-year returns. "In a practical sense, what is going on with super fund returns is that the awfully low December ...

Industry fund previews new insurance offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... after the super fund ended its 15-year relationship with AIA Australia earlier this year. Under the new mandate, Rest will roll out a renewed insurance offering on 1 April 2020 with insurance premiums changing in line with the new cover. There will be ...

Chief economist update: Let's talk about debt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
Financial Standard had been calling for it, central banks have, and now it's the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In its latest bi-annual economic global economic report released this month, the OECD maintained its Australian ...