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Superannuation

Yale returns 3.4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
Yale Endowment Fund earned 3.4% in 2015-16, fuelled by its 52% weighting to alternatives, reports its investment office.

Investment bonds key to secure retirement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
If the superannuation draft legislation released last week is passed high net-worth investors may need to consider alternatives to supplement their super such as investment bonds, according to Centuria Capital

NZ Super Fund partners in US renewables

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund is partnering with an infrastructure manager to make an initial investment in a US-based renewable energy development.

Super guarantee of 12pct a mistake

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Assuming that saving for retirement is synonymous with superannuation is a mistake according to the Grattan Institute.

Super members should face "better off test"

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Industry Super Australia wants a "better off test" requiring banks and other financial services providers to demonstrate that switching a member's superannuation will be beneficial.

More transparency needed on fossil fuel investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
Financial services activist group Market Forces is imploring superannuation funds to vote against remuneration reports at the upcoming AGMs of several fossil fuel companies.

Next wave of super legislation rolls in

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
Attempting to keep superannuation reforms on the move, Treasurer Scott Morrison released more draft legislation yesterday.

Current super objective "un-Australian"

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2016
ASFA believes it is "un-Australian" for politicians to settle on an inadequate objective for superannuation that restricts its purpose to merely substitute or supplement the age pension.

Budgets with more super tinkering are possible

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
Westpac chief economist Bill Evans warns superannuation funds that further tinkering of the system at Budget time is not beyond the realms of possibilities.

AustralianSuper and IFM seek energy asset

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
About 30 superannuation funds are in line to own a majority share in Ausgrid, one of New South Wales' largest electricity networks.