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CBUS chief joins ASFA board

ASFA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
David Atkin, chief executive of CBUS, has been appointed as an industry funds representative to ASFA's board of directors. Atkin will join the noard immediately. He succeeds Ian Silk, chief executive of AustralianSuper, who has decided to step down ...

Members to benefit from standard risk labels: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... choices, a move that will help fund members better understand the risk they take when switching from one option to the next. ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos said that the Cooper Review should consider the impact on super fund members when exercising ...

Retirement savings only last a few years

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... are in retirement," said Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees. Meanwhile ASFA has called for the government to scrap the $450 a month minimum threshold for Superannuation Guarantee payments because of ...

Remuneration dilemma

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
Pauline Vamos, chief executive at ASFA, said debate on whether financial planners should receive payment by the hour, charge a fee or accept a commission is irrelevant because all forms of remuneration present a conflict of interest. Speaking at the ...

Howes appointed CEO of IAA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
The Institute of Actuaries of Australia has appointed former director of policy at ASFA, Melinda Howes, as chief executive. Howes joins the Institute from her role as director of policy and industry practice at the Association of Superannuation Funds ...

Cbus hires government strategist

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
... Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), Industry Funds Forum (IFF) and Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA). Cbus is the industry super fund for the construction, building and allied industries. Established in 1984, it has grown ...

ASFA elects new chair, board members

ASFA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
Tony Lally, head of Sunsuper, has been elected as the new ASFA Chair, replacing former chair Greg Healy. Lally, who joined the ASFA board in mid-2008, replaces Healy, who stood down after relocating to Singapore earlier this year. Several new ASFA Board ...

Seven signs of the end of an empire

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... has well and truly shifted to the BRIC economies. David Thomas, co-founder and director at BRIC+Program and speaker at the ASFA conference last week, drew parallels between the US' economic dominance and that of the Britiss in the 1800s and early 1900s. ...

SMSFs not exempt from tough reviews: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... scrutiny - as the government cracks down on the sector's accountability, efficiency and governance issues. Speaking at the ASFA conference this morning, Minister Bowen said SMSFs "cannot consider itself exempt from the types of accountability, efficiency ...

Super funds need to reset agenda: Cooper

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... to stand on its own two feet now. "It needs its own agenda and identity," said Cooper. Pauline Vamos, chief executive of ASFA, said she did not fully agree about Cooper's comment that the funds management tail was arguably still wagging the superannuation ...