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Asset manager profits under pressure

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... especially if the sector as a whole suffers from poor market returns. The pressures can be illustrated in Australia via superannuation funds' ongoing in-sourcing of investment management services. Based on Rainmaker Information's latest Mandate Chaser ...

Industry fund adds to executive team

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
The rollout of a new corporate strategy at an industry superannuation fund is taking shape following two appointments to its executive team. Mine Wealth + Wellbeing named both its new chief technology and innovation officer and chief engagement officer ...

ASIC targets NAB super after compliance breakdown

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2017
... conditions imposed on NULIS' AFS licence reflect ASIC's priority of improving compliance and disclosure standards in the superannuation industry, including vertically integrated financial services licensees," ASIC deputy chair Peter Kell said. ASIC acknowledged ...

Slattery steps down from SMSF Association

ALEX BURKE, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2017
... educators and the industry - a tribute to our hard work over the past 14 years," Slattery said. "Both the growth of our superannuation sector, its leadership in advocating dignified retirement and national prosperity as well as its integrity, are testimony ...

Super fund names new portfolio manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
An industry superannuation fund is continuing its in-house investment capability, adding a portfolio manager to the internal equities team. Joining Cbus is Morten Frederiksen. He has more than 15 years' global equities and funds management experience ...

Retirement needs higher purpose: ASFA CEO

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chief executive Martin Fahy believes the definition of retirement needs to move away from recreation and pursue a higher purpose. The newly-minted leader told a media event in Sydney yesterday that the ...

TelstraSuper rolls out digital makeover

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... online. "We started by analysing best-of-breed website and digital offering in the digital space within and outside superannuation," TelstraSuper executive general manager, marketing, Jean-Luc Ambrosi said. "We've simplified the content, making it shorter ...

Equip eyes merger with Rio Tinto plan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
EquipSuper and the Rio Tinto Staff Superannuation Fund (RTSSF) are in the final stages of merger talks. The $7 billion super fund confirmed the possible amalgamation; a step that would see its assets almost double to $13.5 billion and membership grow ...

Suncorp vet joins Westpac subsidiary

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... infrastructure equity manager while also serving as a director on the boards of DNR Capital, the Rio Tinto Staff Superannuation Fund, RSCPA Queensland and the YET Foundation. She has previously been a director at GPT Metro Office Fund, Sunsuper and Australian ...

Super taxes break $35bn budget hit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
Treasury has released its latest Taxation Expenditures Statement and it reveals the cost of superannuation's tax breaks to now be $35 billion and on track to climb a further 34% within the next four years. Superannuation taxation expenditures in 2015-16 ...