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Super funds under growing global pressure to divest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... free activists are not "crazy loonies," but a well-coordinated global movement that is now targeting Australia's superannuation funds. Go Fossil Free, a divestment campaign led by global climate movement 350, has significantly grown its presence in Australia ...

Outsourcing is the future of compliance

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... Pacific managing director Roland Slee. Speaking at a media briefing in Sydney, Slee said that because insurance, superannuation, master trust and investment product business lines are often administrated separately on proprietary in-house platforms ...

The case for super investing in agriculture

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
Low interest rates and proximity to Asia's rising middle class are partly reasons for Australian superannuation funds to be investing in the country's agriculture industry. Yet recent research commissioned by BDO and conducted by The University of Queensland ...

Super tax reform on hold for election

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... policy on the table than the government. "We have already announced our multinational tax policy and our high income superannuation policy," Bowen said. "The current tax concessions for superannuation fail all the tests: they are not equitable, they ...

NZ Super weighs equity market capacity

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has provided an insight as to how it assesses the capacity of NZ equities managers considering the fund's significant allocation to the local share market. The Guardians of NZ Superannuation, the entity that manages ...

Club Plus Super appoints three senior execs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
Industry superannuation fund Club Plus Super has made three appointments to its management team. Nici Andronicus joins as head of strategic relationships, Gemma Dooley joins as head of investments and Lindy Hunt joins as head of legal, audit, risk and ...

Australian pre-retirees streets ahead of US

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... Bankrate show that 26% of Americans ages 50 to 54 have no savings. That compares to this country where Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) research from April showed that just 254,809 superannuants aged 50-54, or just over 17%, had ...

Group insurers struggling with premium sustainability

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... facing the industry, according to research by AIA Australia. AIA surveyed 105 respondents in the insurance and superannuation industries at its Group Insurance Summit in August and found that roughly 50% found potentially unsustainable premiums to be ...

New faces to lead financial services policy reform

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... were moving ahead with the export of funds management agenda, life insurance sustainability reform and moving on superannuation governance." Former Parlimentary Secretary to the Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer is now Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Small ...

AIST opposes SG charge reductions

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) is opposing reduced penalties for employers not meeting their compulsory super guarantee payments to employees. Draft legislation A introduced by former federal small business minister Bruce ...