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Aussie pension policy needs careful adjustment: IMF

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
... "The IMF recognises that changes to our tax system must work to promote economic growth and improve competitiveness. Our focus on tax must centre on economic growth and ensuring Australians can work, save and invest for their futures."

Direct life outpaced by group sector

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
... to members. "Rice Warner expects superannuation funds to increase this cross and up-sell of insurance, as further funds focus on expanding their financial services offers to members," she said. However, she suggested that direct insurers had a key advantage ...

ASIC bans ex-Genesys adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
ASIC has banned a former Genesys financial adviser. Lukas Zelka was an authorised representative of AMP-owned Genesys Wealth Advisers from 2009 to 2011; after working at Jigsaw Support services for a year, he moved to another AMP licensee, Charter Financial ...

Link Group announces plans for float

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
Superannuation administration company Link Group is targeting a valuation of up to $2.6 billion in an initial public offer expected to take place on 27 October. Details in the prospectus reveal the company aims to raise between $879.2 million and $946.5 ...

Super fund boss: We're not IT companies

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
Ongoing technology challenges for superannuation funds and the wider financial services industry present an unclear business planning path but an opportunistic path nonetheless. UniSuper chair Chris Cuffe said technology was still a "blind spot" among ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Aren't you glad I didn't lift? This must be what's in Janet's head as she scours the global economic and financial market landscape and saw that it wasn't good. Yes folks, financial markets were doing backflips again overnight on concerns over dropping ...

CIO says low bond market rates to continue

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... Federal Reserve will proceed but it is going to be a long and slow process. "The Fed is trying to change the communication focus from the first lift-off to the path and trajectory. How worried should market participants be given the pricing in the market ...

FEATURE: Inflation plus investing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... still today, a measure often used by fund managers and superannuation funds to prove they had done a good job. But a renewed focus on the needs of the end investor -the client, the retiree, the super fund member- has resulted in a broad change across ...

Chief executive departs mine industry super fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... within the business. He has underpinned this culture with the highest ethical standards and shared values. Thanks to his focus, members continually advocate on behalf of the fund, while staff have voted the organisation as a 'Top 50 Great Place to Work ...

Super funds under growing global pressure to divest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
Funds worth $3.3 trillion have divested from fossil fuel only in the last year. Fossil free activists are not "crazy loonies," but a well-coordinated global movement that is now targeting Australia's superannuation funds. Go Fossil Free, a divestment ...