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Central plank of Cooper Review is MySuper

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... disrupt the current system remains to be seen. According to Rainmaker Data, default investment options are used for every Workplace Super fund in Australia. The latest Benchmarking Report showed that the amount of assets held within default investment ...

APRA dictates investment option labels

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... suggested in this paper then so be it." APRA's investment option categorisation guidelines will not impact how trustees of Workplace funds operate their default investment strategies but they will impose tough rules for how these must be labelled. Damian ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... 93 points lower at 4,245. Economic news scheduled for Wednesday includes the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations skilled job vacancy report, Reserve Bank of Australia financial aggregates data for June, Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

IFSA rebrands to the Financial Services Council

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... and reducing the fiscal burden of an ageing population. As part of this strategy, the council will lobby for greater workplace participation rates for older workers. It will also champion further tax reform especially increasing the goods and services ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... contract was 44 points higher at 4,973 points. In economic news on Wednesday, the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations releases its jobs vacancy report for April, and Westpac and the Melbourne Institute release their indices of ...

MySuper proposal ignites storm

ALEX DUNNIN AND RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... invitation-only roundtable discussions held in Sydney and Melbourne this month. MySuper outlines a new framework where workplace super funds will be forced to carve out their default investment options into discrete funds. Members who are in these default ...

Enviable problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... confirmed by the continued improvements in both the ANZ job ads survey and the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) skilled vacancies index. I think it's now apropos (sounds intellectual doesn't it?) to say that everyone ...

Not-for-profits still beat retail: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... assets. The retail default option weightings are artificially low, however, because some retail funds combine their workplace and personal superannuation products into single combined legal entities for regulatory purposes. While APRA acknowledges the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... contract was 35 points higher at 4,931 points. In economic news on Wednesday, the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations releases its skilled jobs vacancies report for January. The Australian Office of Financial Management conducts ...

Angel in the detail: Cooper's cost cutting measures

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... actually costing a fund an absolute fortune to administer those members [with less than $1,000]," he said. "Across all Workplace Super funds, according to the latest Rainmaker Fee Research, the average Member Benefit Protection cost stood at 0.01 per ...