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AMP adds options to MyNorth

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
... recently reduced the minimum brokerage fee for listed securities to $18.49 from $34. The new fee applies to superannuation, pension and IDPS clients across the MyNorth, North, Summit and iAccess platform products. The recent fee cut follows on from a ...

$450 super threshold to be scrapped

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
... the 2021-22 income year onwards. Trustees will now be able to use their preferred method of calculating exempt current pension income where the fund is fully in the retirement phase for part of the income year but not for the entire income year," Hume ...

Government-run super would leave members worse off: ISA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
... political risk of negative returns during market downturns, leading to less money at retirement and more pressure on the Aged Pension to pick up the slack, ISA chief executive Bernie Dean, said. "This plan would funnel millions of Australian workers ...

AMP reports mixed quarter

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2021
... investment markets offset the net cash outflows the wealth management business saw. The outflows included $468 million in pension payments and were down on the corresponding period's $1.8 billion which included about $700 million in early release ...

Australia improves super system quality

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2021
... improvements and scored highly for its integrity and sustainability, according to a global study. The Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index this year graded Australia a B+, slightly better than the B it received in 2020. Australia achieved an index ...

Global pension fund backs Aussie renewables

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2021
The infrastructure business of a major Canadian pension fund has acquired 49% of a local renewable energy platform. OMERS Infrastructure, part of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, has purchased a 49% interest in FRV Australia from Fotowatio ...

IFM partially acquires energy company

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2021
... long-term retirement savings of working people," he said, "Our investment in Naturgy is another example of how millions of pension fund members, through IFM, are able to access highly diversified investment strategies and asset classes at a scale that ...

Super system "frayed": Hume

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2021
... Hume said that the superannuation system in Australia has frayed edges in need of repairs, during a speech at the World Pension Summit 2021. "And while it's a system that wears three decades of alternations and add-ons of varying quality well - the edges ...

Active Super revamps digital experience

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2021
... also be able to make additional contributions; find lost super; generate a Centrelink/DVA schedule; request payment of pension; view beneficiaries; review insurance; and switch investments. Also commenting, Link Group chief executive, retirement and ...

Digital advice firm hires for institutional strategy

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2021
... provide its senior management with guidance in executing not only its business strategy in Asia Pacific but also its global pension fund strategy. Andrew Baker is currently a director of global advisory firm NMG Group and was previously a director at ...