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An Australian Institute research paper has sought to debunk the arguments of those opposing lifting the...

The chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, James Shipton has declared the regulator treats...

Millions of industry super fund members will benefit from more savings under multiple accounts clean up, according...

Returns have been significantly better than expected at the start of the year and October returns benefited from...

Fewer financial planners consider client-related challenges to be significant when it comes to growing insurance...

The stake will allow the BNP Paribas Group subsidiary to expand and digitise its services to private capital...

The fund is now the only major not-for-profit fund that does not allow members early access to super on grounds of...

Super fund trustees should look at how each heatmap metric could be incorporated into the fund’s member outcomes...

Data from the Australian Tax Office showed it had consolidated over $4.4 billion in active, lost and unclaimed...

CommInsure will refund $12 million for unfair life insurance telephone sales to around 30,000 customers.

As returns diminish, despite costs being the same, risk premia strategies may no longer always be justified to run...

The private equity owner of US$293 billion asset manager, Russell Investments has hired Goldman Sachs to sell the...

Senator Jane Hume has sought to dispel myths and excuses trustees have used to avoid merging.

APRA’s heatmap will include four investment performance measures that reflect the level of growth or defensive...

Five terminal illness claims and two death claims have already been turned away by Hostplus for members unaware of...

The Government would be well-advised focusing on Age Pension taper rates rather than superannuation within its...

In a bid to lift regulatory burden on super funds the two regulators are looking to share data for areas of common...

Less than a quarter of trustees are ‘very confident’ they can deliver their member outcomes assessment on time, a...

Super funds are expected to have a positive start in the December quarter and deliver double-digit returns for the...

The retirement income review’s model will be able to dispel the contagious false narratives such as spiralling...

The largest asset owners are responsible for the wealth and wellbeing of billions of people and they are critical...

They have formed a partnership along with a minority investment in Smart Pension, a workplace pension platform in...

Bubbles have the ability to derail economic growth and a recession in the future will be triggered by a financial...

Women continue to face discrimination and inequality in work and pay, and remain more exposed to financial...

Stephen Doulgeridis has been appointed as general manager of the self-managed superannuation fund administration...

The financial technology and infrastructure firm will aim to replace the outdated systems currently used by the...

While the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority gets ready to pursue its heat-map approach to superannuation...

Most Australian retirees are not involved with any financial professionals and navigate their way through their...

TAL has announced the key changes around its two business lines: individual life and group life and investments.

Financial advisers need to plan for a time horizon for retirees that will ensure their retirement income will last...

Retiree fund members would benefit twice as much if super funds cleaned up implementation leakages, according to...

First Nations Foundation has launched the program to help indigenous people better understand financial concepts...

Only two industry superannuation funds have been served with Australian Securities and Investments Commission...

Costs for retired couples at both comfortable and modest levels up 1.5%, according to ASFA.

The ‘rule of thumb’ could help guide retirees to establish how much they need to drawdown from their...

Payden and Rygel have secured the mandate with its absolute return fixed income strategy which focuses on downside...

A superannuation fund has found itself in the Federal Court over Australian Securities and Investments Commission...

Unnecessarily complex investment menus could lead to smaller pools of investable assets, and too much choice for...

The industry super funds have completed their merger, combining Hostplus’ 1.2 million members and $45 billion...

Confidence dropped 0.9 points to 79.2 as US investors react to deepening geopolitical risks, according to State...

You know there’s a stoush looming on the future of superannuation in Australia when former Prime Minister and...

Rollover has a certain amount of sympathy for Colonial First State and the other superannuation fund trustees who...

Rollover wishes to offer his heartiest congratulations to the teams at industry funds HESTA and Cbus for doing so...

Challenger has confirmed that it is seeing more opportunities from the Government’s Age Pension means test changes...

Excluding CIPRs from the review will allow the creation of sensible policy to develop faster, according to...

The Government has failed to deliver the necessary legislation and regulation to compel superannuation funds to...

The gender gap in superannuation improved during September and has a current growth rate of 3.06%, according to...

The SA-based industry superannuation fund has an employee satisfaction rate of 78% thanks to flexible working...

Newly-merged MBS Insurance and Complete Risk Analysis see potential for growth in the life/risk space despite the...

The life insurer has launched BEACN to help superannuation fund partners improve their clients’ mental health.