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Midwinter unveils new financial tool

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... tools can be customised to align with the style guide of the website it's featured on. Clients that don't want to use the default version may leverage Midwinter's public calculator API to produce their own suite of calculators to generate the same scaled ...

Concerned HNWs rolling back property exposure

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... motivated to acquire strategic assets, but that commercial property currently falls short of their strict criteria. "The default position is to sit on their hands," he explained. "In one instance, a client advised the gap between mandates approved by ...

Super assets hit $2.3 trillion

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... options in the way their money should be invested within MySuper prior to the 30 June deadline. By the same token, accrued default amounts fell by 77% to $10 billion. Self-managed super fund (SMSF) assets meanwhile grew by 12.8% year-on-year to $674.7 ...

Default retirement products not good enough: Milliman

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
... reputational damage. That is the view of risk management and retirement experts Milliman, with consultant Jeff Gebler saying that default options won't be good enough with CIPRs. "While a 'safe harbour' is proposed to protect trustees from claims that ...

Super associations unite to warn against 'political panel'

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... employer or employee choice. In various submissions to the Productivity Commission's draft report on alternative models for default super, industry associations were overwhelmingly against the introduction of a panel, saying that panel members could ...

We must lead by example: Loane

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
Business leaders in the financial services sector must reflect and ask themselves whether they're setting a good example in striving toward gender parity in the superannuation system. Addressing the inaugural Women, Super & Wealth Summit hosted by the ...

Workplace default funds deliver strong returns

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
More than 75% of workplace default superannuation options achieved annual returns over 10% for the year ending February 2017, with 40% achieving annual returns over 12%, latest Rainmaker research shows. The researcher found that February marked the ...

Media Super launches $30m revolving fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... continue to develop innovative and low-risk investments that have contributed to the turnaround in investment returns for its default MySuper (Balanced) option in the last two years. The R&D Tax Credit regime is administered jointly by Innovation Australia ...

Super insurance maintains active pricing: Research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... how these super funds changed insurance rates or cover, looking at movement in rates across age cohorts, the lowering of default cover for younger ages and increasing rates for higher risk groups. It highlights the increasing competitiveness among group ...

Associations not sold on PC draft report

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
The Productivity Commission's draft report on alternative default models for the superannuation system has been met with mixed responses from the industry. The Commission recommended a number of changes to the current default fund system and took aim ...