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Animal spirits may be playing with fire

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... trillion assets under management (AUM) at the end of March 2015. It is equivalent to about 3% of global AUM and superannuation funds and funds of life insurance corporations accounted for about 70% of AUM. A third paper, Potential Growth and Rebalancing ...

PROFILE: EISS chief executive Alex Hutchison

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... services industry. But how did life as a policeman evolve in to Alex Hutchison becoming chief executive of an industry superannuation fund? While studying law Hutchison decided to pursue a career with the Australian Federal Police. He worked across various ...

Future Fund and AustralianSuper settle court case

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... Perth Airport Interest was within Australian Super's own valuation range." AustralianSuper is Australia's largest superannuation fund with $90 billion in funds under management, while the Future Fund manages $117 billion. AustralianSuper was not available ...

Greens strike pension test deal with coalition

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... to give special consideration to retirement incomes in its Tax White Paper, which means we can finally look at superannuation as part of the equation." The deal ensures the federal government passes about $2.4 billion in savings over four years with ...

SMSF investors reducing cash and shares

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
Self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) investors are reducing holdings in cash and term deposits and listed shares according to the latest data from OneVue. Reduction rates in these investment classes have slowed over the past two years yet they still ...

Treasury extends tax debate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... proponent" thereof. The Tax White Paper addresses the relationships and interdependencies between the age pension, superannuation, tax and employment, and it has received submissions from all sectors of the financial services industry. In particular ...

BT pays fines for misleading super statements

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... google.com.au from 26 June 2014 to 18 September 2014," ASIC said. ASIC was concerned BT misled consumers by representing superannuation products issued by the company had generated greater returns than those generated by all industry super funds during ...

Super tax concession savings not overly generous: NAB

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
National Australia Bank (NAB), in a submission to government, has said superannuation should be the most concessionally incentivised form of savings for Australians so it remains the most attractive structure to save for an adequate retirement. This ...

Trio liquidators deny deregistering fraud fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... Strategic Fund was the primary vehicle, along with the ARP Growth Fund, for one of the largest known instances of superannuation fraud in Australian history, with over $176 million in member funds funnelled overseas. Trio Capital was the responsible ...

Small funds winning group risk race

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
Larger superannuation funds appear to have no scale benefit when it comes to getting a good deal on group insurance premiums, the latest study from Rainmaker shows. The Autumn 2015 Rainmaker Superannuation Benchmarking report analysed 15,408 risk options ...