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KiwiSaver 5 years going strong

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... of the nation's 3 million workforce. The fund, not to be confused with the New Zealand Superannuation Fund - akin to Australia's Future Fund - began in 2007 as New Zealand's version of a co-contribution superannuation scheme. Due to constitutional problems ...

ASFA: Retirement costs on the rise

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... safety net. The ASFA Retirement Standard is now an independent initiative by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) benchmarking the annual budget needed by Australians to fund either a comfortable or modest standard of living in ...

Super now the fourth pillar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
Superannuation is now the fourth pillar of Australia's social and economic life and the national disability insurance scheme will develop to become the fifth, said minister Bill Shorten at a major superannuation function at Parliament House in Canberra ...

Changes ahead for WA govt super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... State Solicitor's Office and UnionsWA.. It is expected that the reforms will be fully implemented by March 2012. GESB is Australia's 15th biggest super fund with $10 billion in assets. It's investment performance is currently significantly above average ...

TOWER inforce premiums rise 33pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
TOWER Australia's inforce premium has grown 33 per cent to $946 million, with AustralianSuper's inforce premium representing $110 million at the end of March. Jim Minto, managing director at TOWER Australia, at the firm's first-half profit update, said ...

Former NSW Treasury deputy secretary to head RBF-Tas

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... asset management and maintenance at the Department of Education in Tasmania. He will return to Tasmania to take up his new post next Monday. RBF chairman Damian Egan said Mussared is "committed and enthusiastic about all of RBF's business plans". Prior ...

Towers Watson to fix post-retirement blues

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
... three million Australian baby boomers expected to retire over the next 20 years. Towers Watson (the former Watson Wyatt Australia merging with Towers Perrin) is made up of three business segments: Benefits (including superannuation consulting), Risk ...

CPRS chaos poses big risks for fin services

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... small Senate quotas result in more left leaning or pro-climate change action Senators being elected then their attitudes to post-GFC, post-Ripoll and post-Cooper financial reforms could be even more radical than the industry has so far imagined. For ...

Super concession cuts were overdue

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... economist and investment strategist at AMP Capital, speaking at this morning's Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees post-Budget briefing. Previous budgets handed many benefits to high income earners and this redresses the balance especially ...

Better insurance for WA LGSP

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... problems, particularly those who do not have enough life cover. The fund had teamed up with its life insurer, Tower Australia, to automatically provide the default level of protection for all WA LGSP members after 1 January. The increased cover now also ...