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Industry funds attack banks on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... selected. Earlier this month federal Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg told the Financial Services Council (FSC) annual conference there was a significant opportunity for the government to reform the current "poorly-conceived" selection process of ...

Intra-fund advice can be improved: WSSA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... superannuation members in a system that is currently reactive and lacking penetration. Speaking at the inaugural WSSA conference in Sydney today, Latto suggested a solution to improve intra-fund advice would be facilitating meetings with advisers in ...

AFA Female Excellence semi-finalists named

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... Excellence in Advice Award will be announced early September 2015 with the winner announced at the AFA National Adviser Conference in Cairns from 25-27 October.

Regulation is not the only answer: Herbert Smith Freehills

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... the reason super is expensive, it's the reason for poor performance," Donald continued. During a session at the FSC Conference, he explained that deciding what to allow the market to take care of is a real philosophical problem and an intellectual debate. ...

Murray slams "silly suggestions"

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... made the arguments put forward by all sides pretty weak," he said during an entertaining break-out session at the FSC Conference. "The people that claim for-profit is bad have to [declare] what set of interests are being protected if they are arguing ...

Frydenberg slams modern awards as poorly-conceived

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... "poorly-conceived" selection process of default superannuation funds. Speaking at the Financial Services Council (FSC) annual conference he said: "Opening the superannuation market to competition will require consideration of an alternative to the current ...

FSC awards industry execs

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
The FSC awarded eight top executives for their contributions to the industry at the conference gala dinner, which took place last night at Movie World, on the Gold Coast. The eight winners were Perpetual senior risk manager Alan Lewitton, AMP's Janet ...

Super board changes ignore past lessons: Bowen

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... superannuation fund boards ignore the lessons learnt from the HIH disaster. Speaking at the Financial Services Council annual conference, Bowen quoted Justice Neville Owen in his capacity at the HIH Royal Commission and said any attempt to impose governance ...

MySuper fee savings can be doubled

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... by 2018 with most of those savings coming from the retail sector," he said at the Financial Services Council (FSC) Conference in the Gold Coast. Benefits did arise from scale with larger funds exhibiting lower fees. However, there is a significant reduction ...

FSC calls for 12% super by 2022

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... called for a bipartisan commitment to 12% superannuation contributions by 2022 in her keynote speech to the FSC Annual Conference on the Gold Coast. "With average balances still low - at $70,000 for women and $110,000 for men a^\' and compulsory contribution ...