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Best-in-show splits industry

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... includes an SMSF. Neither should enterprise and workplace agreements restrict members' choice, it said. "Any member who does not have an existing account and who fails to make a choice of fund within 60 days should be defaulted to one of the products ...

Fed's pause becomes the ECB's problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... appreciating as a result of the Fed's shift in stance. It has now risen by 1.8% since hitting an 18-month low last November. Not good tidings for an economy that's already losing momentum. Not only has Eurozone GDP growth slowed to 1.6% in the third ...

Superannuation a mystery to students: survey

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... a major issue. "Students can have as many as six different employers before they turn 25. But because they're usually not thinking about their long-term financial goals, they'll go with whatever the default super fund is each time. In fact, 69.6% ...

Engagement should be easier: Productivity Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
The Productivity Commission's final report into the efficiency and competitiveness of superannuation blasted the system for making engagement harder for fund members. The Commission's final report took aim at the superannuation system and government ...

Macquarie names digital infra head

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
Macquarie Capital appointed a managing director to head up its investments in the growing digital infrastructure sector. Oliver Bradley has been appointed as the managing director of digital infrastructure investing at Macquarie Capital, the corporate ...

Government needs to rethink CIPRs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... sometimes irreversibly so - and can affect the Government's Age Pension liabilities." The Commission also said trustees do not always want to offer these products, and forcing them to do so may conflict with their obligations to act in members' ...

Game over for grandfathered commissions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... for the retention of such arrangements as members could face additional costs if the trail commissions are removed. "It is not clear to the Productivity Commission how extending transitional grandfathered trailing commissions could be in the interests ...

The problem the Productivity Commission is trying to fix

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... have allowed a situation to develop where chronically underperforming super funds are able to continually defy gravity and not just survive, but thrive? This problem is so pervasive that Australia's best super funds routinely achieve investment returns ...

Specialist SMSF advisers need only apply

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
The final report calls for additional requirements that financial advisers must comply with before they provide SMSF advice. The Productivity Commission is again calling for specialist training for those financial advisers wishing to advise on SMSFs ...

Regulators in Productivity Commission firing line

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
ASIC and APRA both scored scathing assessments in the Productivity Commission's superannuation report. The regulators sharing responsibility for the oversight of Australia's finance system copped a grilling in the Commission's final report ...