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ASIC extends advice relief measure

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
... Relief to facilitate advice about the federal government's early access to superannuation initiative has ended as the scheme was finalised on 31 December 2020. Advisers did not need to provide an SOA when providing advice about the scheme. The relief ...

Super fund liquidity could be better: RBA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
... funds' management of liquidity pressures throughout 2020, particularly the impact of the early release of superannuation scheme. However, the central bank said there is still room for improvement. With APRA having already called on funds to reassess ...

UniSuper tops MySuper league tables

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
... 8.3% p.a. to 2.5% p.a. If the lens is widened to five-years, the best performing MySuper strategies are LGS Accumulation Scheme - High Growth (9.8% p.a.), AustralianSuper - Balanced (9.5% p.a.) and Hostplus balanced (9.5% p.a.). Over 10 years - the longest ...

Chief economist update: Australia's confidence contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
... April which means that respondents would have been aware of the delays from the vaccine roll-out and after the JobKeeper scheme has ended. Confident consumers are spending consumers... especially (as shown in the survey) when they're expecting improvement ...

EISS Super, TWUSUPER explore merger

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... MySuper option's annual returns of 8% plus over all time periods mentioned. Last month, the Australia Post Superannuation Scheme (APSS) signed a non-binding heads of agreement to explore a merger with Sunsuper, which is committed to a merger with ...

Mainstream obtains superior takeover offer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... notified the firm to either match or offer more favourable terms. SS&C Technologies Holdings has now entered a conditional scheme implementation deed with Mainstream to acquire 100% of the company at $2 per share, valuing Mainstream at $285.7 million. ...

Climate change worse than pandemic: UK regulator

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021
... zero status that includes divestment actions and greater investment in green infrastructure. Meanwhile, the BT Pension Scheme - the largest private sector defined benefit scheme - is aiming for net zero greenhouse emissions by 2035. However, a report ...

APSS explores merger with Sunsuper

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2021
The Australia Post Superannuation Scheme (APSS) has signed a non-binding heads of agreement to explore a merger with Sunsuper. The $8 billion APSS has been closed to new Australia Post employees since 2012 and has around 30,000 members. APSS Trustee's ...

ASIC praises super trustees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
... insurance in superannuation." The regulator did not name the funds which gave inaccurate projections of the impact of the ERS scheme but said it expected trustees to present more accurate information. "ASIC expected trustees to ensure that these tools ...

Chief economist update: BOE not letting its guard down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
... March, contained a number of significant new policy announcements, including the extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and other measures to support the economy in the near term which had not been reflected in the February Report" - amounting ...