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APRA moves to ensure improved member outcomes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2023
... business-related expenses. The regulator's changes seek to align expenditure requirements more closely with the best financial interest duty and for the retirement phase, support the retirement income covenant. The reforms will mandate trustees to justify ...

Jones releases Your Future, Your Super review outcomes

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2023
... stakeholders and Treasury to ensure that members get the best possible outcomes." Super funds' Best Financial Interest Duty obligations will remain as is. "Ultimately every dollar spent will have an impact on member fees, which in turn directly impacts ...

Religious carve outs for faith-based super funds are dead

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2022
... reforms, which were carefully devised to ensure super funds invest members savings according to the best financial interest duty. Earlier this week, a spokesperson for assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones told Financial ...

BFID no hindrance to helping vulnerable members: Panel

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2022
... members, with the Conference for Major Super Funds being told that doing so would be a breach of the best financial interest duty is a myth. AIST senior manager, policy David Haynes said super funds could and should be doing more for vulnerable members ...

Review of YFYS receives mixed response

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2022
... chastised Jones for protecting underperforming super funds and for him signalling the gutting of the best financial interest duty. "The Labor government has no plan and no policy to improve member outcomes," Bragg settled. Nevertheless, Mercer senior ...

APRA intensifies scrutiny of underperformers

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2021
... movement of members and outflow of funds," he said. APRA will also sharpen its assessment of the best financial interest duty (BFID) so that trustees must have regard to members' financial interest first and foremost beyond other non-financial interests. ...

YFYS on its way to Senate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2021
... Super bill last night, with Labor getting away with just one of the amendments on its wish list. Best Financial Interest Duty's proposal to give ministers the power to ban superannuation funds' investments was dropped. However, Labor's other proposed ...

Labor to push for YFYS stapling amendments

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... Funds.. It also wants the tests to be applied to choice products as well. Lastly, it will push for the Best Financial Interest Duty to include a materiality threshold, and to remove the directions powers. "Absolute crock, unnecessary extraordinary overreach. ...

Labor won't support YFYS Bill in current form

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
... contested measures such as July 1 start date, stapling's pre-dating of performance testing, and the Best Financial Interest Duty. In the committee's final report, Labor took issue with seven main features of the Bill: power to the Treasurer to ...

"Financial" in BFID is no big deal: Academic

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
A UNSW academic says subjecting superannuation funds to "best financial interest duty" instead of just "best interest duty" is not material, but BFID's flow-on effects will be concerning for trustees. University of New South Wales director for centre ...
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