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Trustees to be quizzed on climate risk management

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2022
Many superannuation funds will soon be asked to self-assess how their current practices align to the prudential regulator's guidance on managing the financial risks of climate change. APRA will soon be sending a voluntary survey to medium-to-large ...

U Ethical adds two directors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022
... actuary. Burns has over 30 years of senior executive experience in organisations including AXA, Pimco Australia, Equity Trustees and Equip Super. He has held directorship appointments with BT Superannuation, Defence Health and The Financial Services ...

Remembering Helen Hewett

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2022
... she became executive officer of the Industry Funds Forum which merged with the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees in 2017. It was while heading the IFF that Hewett - a staunch advocate for suicide prevention and members' mental health ...

HESTA endorses super splitting initiative

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2022
... costs. The time to process a super split, which has previously been lengthy, reduced significantly, with time for super trustees to approve draft orders also significantly reduced, HESTA said. HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey said a streamlined industry ...

APRA takes next step on super data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2022
... options, commencing a new consultation today. Last year APRA undertook phase one of its data transformation which saw super trustees required to provide significantly more data to APRA, across all superannuation product and investment options; currently ...

ASIC consults on refreshing PDSs, FSGs

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2022
... the changes includes making relief in instruments that relate to shorter PDSs and PDS obligations for superannuation trustees, IDPS operators and responsible entities of IDPS-like schemes into one new instrument. Stakeholders from superannuation trustees ...

Hostplus and Maritime Super explore merger

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2022
... undertaking a competitive assessment of funds it could merge with. If due diligence is successfully completed the funds' trustees will sign a successor fund transfer deed and prepare a transition plan which would target Hostplus' and Maritime ...

Australian Unity Trustees adds lawyer

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2022
Australian Unity Trustees has appointed a national legal partnerships manager. Angela Ehsani steps into the role of national manager, legal partnerships. Based in Sydney, Ehsani will lead Australian Unity Trustees' national network of personal injury ...

ATO underestimates SMSF performance: Report

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2022
... interesting and I suspect many of the findings from this research will be a point of reference for SMSF advisors and trustees for many years to come."

Rainy day funds probed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2022
... for the insurance, it seems to me. One of the concerns that I and others have had for some time is that prohibiting the trustees from using members assets to meet sanctions would be undermined if you then allowed them to use member funds to buy the insurance ...