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Superannuation

One in five ignore super accounts

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
Nearly 20 per cent of Australians have no idea how many super funds they currently have, new research from REST Super shows.

Divorcing super

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
Divorce battle over self-managed super fund assets and art ownership within SMSFs raises tricky questions over what happens when only one of the splitting couple is a fund trustee.

Super back in the spotlight

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
After being largely overlooked during the election campaign and in the scramble to form government, Resources Minister Martin Ferguson has put superannuation policy firmly back in the political spotlight.

ATO tackles SMSF fraud risk

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
The ATO has taken measures to protect fund members from losing their super savings, as threats to SMSFs, one of the biggest segments in the superannuation industry, become more sophisticated.

Super segmentation comes of age

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
Age is nothing but a number, even in super, with one researcher ambitiously setting up a new template to segment fund members beyond the usual Gen X, Gen Y and Baby Boomer divide.

Club Plus Super offers planning, opens fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
As part of a broader strategy to strengthen its market position, industry super fund ClubPlus Super has launched a personal financial planning service and has opened its doors to the wider community by becoming a public offer fund.

Dob in a fraud: CalPERS

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
Notice a fraud activity at your super fund? Members of the US' largest public pension fund CalPERS can now complain about fraudsters following the launch of an ethics helpline.

NZ Super to look for green mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
Australian fund managers looking for mandates from the $16.4 billion NZ Super Fund may soon have to display how they input environmental, social and governance factors in their strategies as the fund pushes ESG considerations higher on its priority list.

Intra-fund advice takes off

ISN RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
A year after ASIC published guidelines on the provision of intra-fund advice, 50,000 super fund members have tapped the service, according to the Industry Super Network.

Unions threaten strikes with BBC pension reforms looming

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
The UK's Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU), National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Unite announced plans to srike in October in response to planned pension reforms.