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Review of YFYS receives mixed response

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2022
... this early in the term, shows not only how partisan this government is, but also confirms they are simply puppets for the unions and super funds." "This commitment to gut Your Future, Your Super will cost workers billions of dollars." Bragg chastised ...

Social impact fund to target essential workers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2022
... proportionally according to equity interest - same goes for any losses. In developing the model, HOPE said it engaged with various unions and industry bodies for essential workers and found it is sought after and in need of deployment. "HOPE has been ...

Performance test comms criticised

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2022
... would be updated in due course. ASIC also reviewed communications sent by third parties, including an instance in which unions connected with two of the funds that had products fail contacted union members. In turn, ASIC contacted the unions reminding ...

The ongoing evolution of super: Scheerlinck

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2022
... Welcoming the more than 350 conference delegates, Scheerlinck said it's important to remember the "prime role played by unions in fighting for a retirement savings system that covered all workers, rather than just the corporate executives and senior ...

Fossil fuel divestment bill passes California Senate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2022
... divest their estimated US$9 billion in fossil fuel holdings. The bill was introduced in February with the backing of 127 unions, coalitions and organisations and requires the two funds to cease investments in the world's 200 largest fossil fuel companies ...

Liberals should liberate Australians from super: Bragg

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... spend my energies on the two principal economic issues: taxation and superannuation," he said. Bragg claimed super has made unions, banks and insurers richer than ever and lamented excessive fees and lack of competition. He also called super a strange ...

Superannuation not a super solution to housing affordability

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2022
Homeownership rates have plummeted, but unions and industry groups have had a negative response to Scott Morrison's last-ditch pitch to 'aspirational Australians'. Morrison has said that supporting first home buyers is a key part of his government's ...

Vale Tom McDonald

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2022
... federal secretary of the BWIU he campaigned for the first national superannuation scheme. The campaigns of the building unions and their members with the ACTU in the early 1980s led directly to the creation of an industry based occupational superannuation ...

APRA 'digging into' super fund contributions to unions

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2022
... Bragg at Senate estimates, prudential regulator APRA shared it has done some preliminary investigations about payments to unions. Bragg has claimed that superannuation which should be for workers has turned into a sinkhole for unions and banks. In a ...

CalPERS, CalSTRS face fossil fuels ban

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2022
... finance the very companies that are driving climate change". The press conference heard that many of the funds' member unions have passed divestment resolutions, such as the California Federation of Teachers and 14 chapters of the California Teachers ...