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Labor opposes super trustee governance bill

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
Labor senators Sam Dastyari and Chris Ketter have dissented from a report recommending the bill on superannuation trustee governance be passed in the Senate today. The dissenting senators believe the bill "blindly conflates and confuses trustee governance ...

Super software provider outlines future plans

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
Superannuation and investment software provider Financial Synergy has increased its consulting team by 50% in 2015 and is preparing to expand its office space in 2016. Outlining its growth strategy today, Financial Synergy also announced it is adding ...

ASIC bans SMSF adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
ASIC has permanently banned a former self-managed superannuation fund adviser. Marion Joan Pearson, who provided SMSF advice to clients from November 2007 to October 2013, now resides in New Zealand. She is the sole director of and shareholder in Colisa ...

ME and mutuals must embrace fintech

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... Review released today and something that ME Bank has already encompassed in its strategy. A mutual owned by industry superannuation funds, ME has been using start-up RISKflo to help executives have a clearer view of risk management and prevention. ME ...

Super trustee bill before the Senate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
The Senate Economics Legislation Committee is expected to table its report on new superannuation trustee governance laws today ahead of debating a proposed bill in the Senate tomorrow. If passed the bill will require all Australian Prudential Regulation ...

FEATURE: The circle of life

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... explores this evolving market. Earlier this year a joint paper by AustralianSuper and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) suggested the nation's super system is more than four decades from maturity. The view has merit in the sense ...

The importance of Asian trade agreements

GREG O'NEILL, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE, LA TROBE  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015

SMSFs welcome no dumping of LRBAs

DARREN SNYDER  |  SUNDAY, 8 NOV 2015
The Self-managed Independent Superannuation Funds Association (SISFA) said it will work with the federal government to ensure SMSFs can take advantage of future retirement income developments. Yesterday the government said it will support the Financial ...

Life insurers must address group risk schemes: APRA

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) believes an unexpected increase in the cost of insurance for superannuation fund members has come from life insurers not addressing underlying structural issues in group risk schemes. In APRA's 2015 Annual ...

Club Plus Super increases women on trustee board

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... third of Club Plus Super's trustee directors are women following two new appointments at the $2 billion industry superannuation fund. ClubsNSW announced both Janet Torney and Dominique Hogan-Doran are joining as trustee directors with the former assuming ...