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AIST reshuffles board, names new president

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
The current chair of HESTA will become the new president of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST). Angela Emslie, who is also a director of Frontier Advisors, has been a director of AIST since 2007. She replaces Cate Wood, who has ...

JANA awards $385m mandate to Californian manager

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... traditional and implemented consulting advice to institutional clients, including corporate, industry and public sector superannuation clients as well as charities, foundations and endowment clients. As of 31 December 2013, it advised over 100 clients ...

AustralianSuper consortium picks up QLD motorways for $7bn

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
AustralianSuper, as part of a consortium led by toll road owner Transurban, is set to pay $7 billion to buy a string of Brisbane motorways from the Queensland government. The consortium said it had signed an agreement to buy Queensland Motorways, which ...

Larry Fink pays tribute to Australian super system

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
BlackRock chairman and chief executive Larry Fink has endorsed Australia's superannuation system in a recent letter to shareholders. As the world's largest asset manager celebrates its 25th anniversary, Fink's note highlighted the unpreparedness of ...

FEATURE: Re-imagining Australia's financial future

STAFF WRITERS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... more than 250 publicly released submissions. The dominance of the big banks, the relative expense of Australia's superannuation industry and the relevance of our peak regulatory bodies have all been called into question in the recently released first-round ...

FSC and ISA clash over super and awards

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... (ISA). The FSC questioned the validity of the FWC expert panel and its ability to undertake a review of default superannuation funds in modern awards. The organisation is now seeking an urgent hearing with the FWC before the April 28 deadline for MySuper ...

Funds passport 'doomed to fail' without tax reform

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... around equalising as an Asian investor what it is to come into Australia." He added that, while the growing pool of superannuation funds will need to look offshore for investment opportunities, the funds passports as they currently stand are a somewhat ...

ISA 'deeply concerned' over banks' MySuper campaign

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has upped its campaign to keep superannuation in awards, saying it is "deeply concerned" by the big bank-led push to take the Fair Work Commission out of the default super selection process. ISA chief executive David Whiteley ...

Not too late for super to start on big data

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
It's not too late for superannuation funds to start using big data to understand their members' needs, the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) chief executive Tom Garcia wrote in a recent blog on his LinkedIn profile. "What do footy ...

Consumers reluctant to use online advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... financial planner face to face. A Financial Services Council (FSC) research into consumers' digital engagement with superannuation and wealth management found that only 13% of Australians sought financial advice online, while 26% did it offline. However ...