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Women lead superannuation fund engagement

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
... comprehensive data analysis can help inform better retirement policy and industry practice. In the US, Utkus said six-out-of-10 workers are in professionally managed default funds and is mainly a choice-based system. In the past, he presented to Congress ...

Unions have right to express views: Combet

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
Industry Super Australia chair Greg Combet says the ACTU had the right to express its views and the law ensures that only what is in members' interest get through a superannuation trustee board. Last week, Australian Council of Trade Unions president ...

UK to introduce new pension scheme

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
... enormous pension liabilities, the UK government said. The new scheme was proposed last year after the UK's Communication Workers Union (CWU) reached a deal with Royal Mail, the 500-year-old postal delivery service. CWU has close to 200,000 active members ...

UK pension funds to be hit hard over negligence

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2019
... proposal from the UK Government, bosses would face up to seven years in jail for endangering the retirement savings of their workers by allowing deficits to escalate to unsustainable levels, or through chronic mismanagement. Making mismanagement a criminal ...

Industry fund welcomes new chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
... chair of a fund with such a strong history of putting members first. "LUCRF Super is and will continue to support all workers across Australia, helping them achieve financial dignity now and into their retirement. I'm proud to be the chair of the ...

Chief economist update: Nerves of steel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
Could it be? Could it be that Westpac's chief economist Bill Evans has just gotten one up on me? Nah Virginia, me don't want to "kill Bill", we economists may not see eye to eye but we stick together. More so that Bill's come around to my ...

Group insurance reforms to be tabled

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
... measures being tabled today were lost in that round however, with changes being made to ensure the requirement for younger workers to specifically opt out of paying for life insurance remains. Other reforms passed recently will see the charging of exit ...

Pay super fortnightly: ISA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... Industry Super Australia is calling for changes to the laws governing superannuation contributions in Australia, arguing workers collectively miss out on millions in interest payments when their superannuation contributions are paid each quarter, instead ...

Government carves out super deal

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019
... concessions to the package. Importantly, the Government's insurance in super carve out - which would have seen younger workers be required to opt-in for insurance within their superannuation - was lost. The move now ensures younger workers will continue ...

Equity investors will struggle in 2019: Baur

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... said. Baur sees low-wage earners influencing the fact that "globalisation is fading." Hundreds of millions of low-wage workers are being brought into the economy and they compete with the other middle-class workers in the UK, US, Europe and Japan, he ...