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Actuaries Institute proposes new performance test measure

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
The Actuaries Institute has proposed revising the annual superannuation performance test, so it better aligns trustees' investments with the best financial interests of members. In its Treasury submission, the Institute said the test should include ...

OneSuper to take on more super products

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2024
... confirmed it will also transfer the Professional Super sub-plan on June 1. Professional Super is home to several superannuation products, including Cruelty Free Super, Engineering Super, Professional Super (formerly MobiSuper), and Student Super. According ...

Fortnum, PFS launch parent company

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2024
... Australian Unity for an undisclosed amount. Nestworth acquired Australian Unity's employed adviser and corporate superannuation services business, while Fortnum took on PFS and its 155 representatives. Australian Unity's advice unit had $11.2 billion ...

Equity Trustees scores Woodbridge mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2024
... its new retail fund, the Woodbridge Secured Income Fund. Equity Trustees executive general manager, corporate and superannuation trustee services Andrew Godfrey said he is delighted to have been chosen to be the responsible entity for the fund. "We look ...

Australians need $1.6m for comfortable retirement: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2024
... State (CFS) finds, but they cannot agree on what living comfortably looks like. This is well above Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia's (ASFA) calculation of $690,000 that it says is needed for retired couples to live in comfort and ...

Vanguard backs current performance test

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
... YourSuper comparison tool should sort by fees, as it's "the only forward-looking measure" for consumers to compare superannuation products. "Sorting by investment performance and the performance test as it stands may risk misleading consumers about the ...

Court approves $16m DASS settlement

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
... Federal Court has approved the settlement reached in the $16 million class action brought against Dixon Advisory & Superannuation Services (DASS) following a two-week delay. Justice Thawley sought to gather more information for the victims in delaying ...

Top 10% of households home to 15 times more wealth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
... $1.2 million in total wealth, 41% of which is in owner-occupied housing. 13% is in investment properties, 20% in superannuation, and 19% in other investments. The data shows a huge contributor to wealth inequality is income inequality. The latest available ...

Spaceship Super to land somewhere new

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2024
... overall reduction in fees of 0.027%. Spaceship Super was launched in 2017 as a sub-plan of the Tidswell Master Superannuation Plan. At the time, it had a waitlist of roughly 22,000 members that it hoped to convert, estimating this would give it about ...

AMP North adviser inflows rise 22%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2024
... on Q1 23 to $544 million and managed portfolios on the "flagship platform" reached $14.9 billion in AUM. AMP's superannuation and investments business, formerly master trust, reported an increase in AUM to $54.1 billion from $51.9 billion the prior quarter. ...
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