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Women-led super funds outperform, so why so few leaders

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
Superannuation funds with higher than average levels of female strategic leadership outperforming other funds forces the question of why the proportion of women in superannuation leadership roles remains so low. Research by Rainmaker into the relative ...

CBA Group Super CIO retires

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... investment officer at Commonwealth Bank Group Super is retiring after more than 20 years' service at the corporate superannuation fund. Following 38 years' service with CBA, Gerard Parlevliet will retire from the banking group before the end of May. ...

Trustee Partners hunts GM

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... consulting division of Tidswell Financial Services, and is aiming to provide an alternative trustee business for superannuation funds and fintech entrepreneurs. Trustee Partners has operations in Melbourne and Adelaide and opened a Sydney office this ...

Super to drive employment in 2017

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
The superannuation and investment industry may prove to be Australia's biggest employment growth area in 2017. New insights from an industry survey conducted by SUPER Recruiters shows 50% of respondents anticipate the need to employ more staff this ...

Life insurance industry rebuts need for greater reform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... industry, saying that it is already experiencing significant reform indirectly via its close connection to the superannuation industry. "Given this substantial and active reform agenda, we suggest that it would be in the interests of both consumers and ...

Listed advice groups gaining ground

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... advice recommendations to be written in-house, together with a phone-based advice system for life insurance and superannuation customers. In the first half of FY17, Yellow Brick Road reported a maiden profit and an underlying EBITDA of $3.1 million (excluding ...

Super doesn't need tender system: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia is urging the Productivity Commission to reject the consideration of adopting a Chilean-style tender process for default super in Australia. ASFA's latest research paper says adopting the Chilean ...

CBA reviews part-time staff earnings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
... Bank will review its payments to part-time employees over the past eight years to determine if any are owed unpaid superannuation entitlements. Last week the Finance Sector Union claimed CBA failed to pay part-time staff members the full 9.5% superannuation ...

Custody sector hits $3 trillion

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
... volume increased by 13.7%. ACSA chair David Knights said the milestone indicates the strength of the Australian superannuation and funds management system. "We have witnessed a remarkable pick-up in the second-half after a muted first-half, which is ...

Australian Unity enters trustee services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
... circumstances become more complex, for instance with blended families, diseases of ageing such as dementia, and varied superannuation positions," he said. The move was earmarked in 2015, when Australian Unity Personal Financial Services acquired estate ...