The global downturn has tempted some superannuation funds to reduce their exposure and risk budgets to the fixed income asset class. A new benchmark construction process ...

APRA's push for better data from superannuation funds will place greater pressure on fund executives and trustees which, according to SimCorp’s Rod Dew, will require furt...

Faced with a second year of negative returns, Australian superannuation fund members can ill-afford the uncertainty that is being generated by multiple government inquiri...

Recent legislative changes combined with the Federal Budget have served to change the taxation landscape for major superannuation funds, writes specialist lawyer Noel Dav...

The Rudd Government must move carefully on superannuation in circumstances where the Henry Tax Review has offered little of substance, writes Mike Taylor....

Is the Federal Government and the superannuation funds industry expecting too much of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority on the question of delivering fund-le...

Here we go again. Politicians and public servants looking at the possibility of superannuation funds underwriting their policy objectives....

The Grattan Institute’s Jim Minifie argues that the super governance reforms currently being pursued by the Government are defensible, but not the main game for members. ...

A new white paper authored by JP Morgan has confirmed that while baby boomers may be retiring with a greater accumulation of assets than any earlier generation, they are ...

The Financial Services Council’s Blake Briggs argues that there is little to fear and much to welcome from the super fund governance changes. ...

Defining the objective of superannuation will have the effect of setting the policy boundaries for at least the next two decades. ...