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Coalition's IR commitment locks in Award default funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... the slim representation of retail funds on these revised Awards. While the Coalition's spokesperson for Employment and Workplace Relations, Tasmanian Senator Eric Abetz, tried to hedge his bets when he said the Coalition still reserves its right to adjust ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
... Melbourne Institute release their joint survey of consumer sentiment for July. The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations releases its vacancy report, based on a survey of skilled job vacancies advertised in July. The Australian ...

GESB can manage tougher measures on capital reserves

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... $72.5 million in its operational risk reserve. GESB's default investment option ranks just within the top 30 lowest cost Workplace Super funds in Australia, according to Rainmaker Information.

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 ...