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Superannuation

Ian Silk will be stepping down from his role as chief executive after 15 years and will be replaced by the fund’s chief risk officer, Paul Schroder....

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Superannuation

The superannuation fund’s chief executive has claimed his salary is modest in comparison to other super funds who in-house the same operations....

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Superannuation

As a Kiwisaver fund introduces a weighting to Bitcoin, could it be an option for Australian super funds?...

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People & Products

Class has launched an online tool to help accounting practices to make the decision to work with an audit partner based on automation through technology integrations....

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Superannuation

Super funds have delivered over $300 billion to members in the FY2021, according to preliminary data from SuperRatings....

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Superannuation

KKR’s bid to purchase PEXA for $3 billion expired on Sunday and shareholders were looking to raise $1.18 billion for the initial public offering....

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Superannuation

The exposure draft legislation includes allowing superannuation fund trustees to use their preferred method of calculating exempt current pension income when a fund is in...

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Superannuation

Colonial First State has left a key Parliamentary Committee in no doubt that it is opposed to people being allowed to use their superannuation to help fund a first home d...

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Features

The Government has succeeded in using the Federal Budget to tidy up some longstanding superannuation policy loose-ends with some usually noisy backbenchers remaining comp...

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds have confirmed to a Parliamentary Committee that they have directed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Industry Super Australia....

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Financial planning

Politicians and financial advisers may see the actions of superannuation funds in denying members the ability to pay external advisers as an issue, but no one has filed t...

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Superannuation

Some 21 MySuper products currently on offer in the market and holding over $100 billion in funds are under-performers and their members simply don’t realise it, according...

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Superannuation

Advice fees levied by superannuation funds are relatively insignificant when compared to administration and investment fees....

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Superannuation

Amid strong questioning by Government parliamentarians about how regulators monitor the superannuation sole purpose test, APRA has admitted it has only pursued one such c...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has been accused of extraordinary and undemocratic legislative over-reach by trying to gain control of how superannuation funds invest on behalf of...

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