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HESTA names new chief executive

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... consultative leadership style, which we believe is important for continuing HESTA's very high standing with members and employers in the health and community services sector, employees, service providers and other stakeholders. "Most importantly, Debby ...

Allow couples to hold joint super accounts: Rice Warner

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... members who want the flexibility but not the responsibility of running an SMSF," Rice Warner said. It also proposed that employers contribute 2% more to female employees' superannuation accounts and to remove the $450 a month threshold under which superannuation ...

Consumers need super default safety net: ISA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... David Whiteley said. Banks, he added, "want to bundle up business banking with their super products and sell this to employers. This could result in employees being moved into a poorer performing bank-owned fund, leaving them with less money in their ...

Vertical integration not important anymore: Murray

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... superannuation boards with a majority of independent directors as these directors will not be as accountable to fund members and employers." While Murray highlighted that the recommendation seeks to improve super fund governance, TWU national secretary ...

Industry braces for majority independent directors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... defined benefit schemes. "In defined benefit schemes sponsored by a single employer, equal representation of employees and employers is appropriate and consistent with the governance models of defined benefit pension funds internationally." However ...

FSI favours Chile-style default super auction

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... strong consumer-driven competition." It put this lack of competition down to members' lack of engagement and reliance on employers to choose default funds for their employees. Under the new system, the report stated: "[E]ach fund would be required to ...

Register to include qualifications, association membership

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... membership of a professional association or qualifications. "The register of financial advisers will enable investors, employers and ASIC to verify the credentials of financial advisers and be confident that they are appropriately qualified and experienced," ...

Cbus delivered last blow before RC interim report

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... these prejudicial views and tendencies manifested themselves on a daily basis in their attitudes to their work, towards employers, and in response to favours and views expressed by CFMEU officers." In response to Butera's submission, in which her solicitor ...

FoFA disallowance could put industry into breach of law

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... said that "there is a more sensible way to go about it." He argued that "this is an industry that is one of the largest employers across Australia and within 24 hours you are changing the law of the land." Cormann noted that the Opposition has until ...

ASFA launches blueprint for post-retirement system

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... adequate savings for their retirement." The paper also recommends the removal of the $450 threshold for the SG, allowing employers to contribute more super for their female workers, extending compulsory super to the self-employed and applying SG to all ...