AMP and CBA update on super class actions
AMP and Commonwealth Bank have shared updates on ongoing superannuation class actions as they release their financial results.
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Laura Dew
Laura Dew is editor at Super Review. Prior to joining SR, she spent five years working at Investment Week in the UK covering asset and wealth management.
Hejaz launches first Islamic pension product
The $1.3 billion Islamic finance provider has announced Hejaz Islamic Super and Pension, the first Islamic account-based pension product directly offered to Australians.
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Jasmine Siljic
Jasmine Siljic is a journalist at Super Review. Prior to joining SR, she also worked across other Momentum Media brands as an intern and cadet journalist. She recently completed a Bachelor of Media and Communications at Macquarie University.
Pendal COO among new senior hires at Aware Super
The $160 billion fund has named Justin Howell as its chief operating officer for investments alongside new heads of portfolio management and business development.
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Rhea Nath
Rhea L Nath is a journalist on Super Review and InvestorDaily, with a focus on funds management, superannuation, and institutional investment. Previously, she covered small business and entrepreneurship news at Dynamic Business and multicultural issues at Indian Link Media Group. In 2022, she was named Young Journalist of the Year at the NSW Premier’s Multicultural Communications Awards.
Super advisers make up less than 4% of advice market
Financial advisers working at super funds make up just 3.8 per cent of the financial advice industry while the number of licensees make up less than 1 per cent.
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Laura Dew
Laura Dew is editor at Super Review. Prior to joining SR, she spent five years working at Investment Week in the UK covering asset and wealth management.
Cyber security in the spotlight as privacy concerns grow
With three-quarters of Australians viewing data breaches as one of the biggest privacy risks today, the amount of data requested and handled by their super fund remains a growing priority.
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Rhea Nath
Rhea L Nath is a journalist on Super Review and InvestorDaily, with a focus on funds management, superannuation, and institutional investment. Previously, she covered small business and entrepreneurship news at Dynamic Business and multicultural issues at Indian Link Media Group. In 2022, she was named Young Journalist of the Year at the NSW Premier’s Multicultural Communications Awards.
Women could be $192k better off at retirement with advice
A 50-year-old woman who seeks advice stands to be $192,000 better off in retirement, while the figure stands at a whopping $472,000 if they start at 35, according to new modelling.
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Rhea Nath
Rhea L Nath is a journalist on Super Review and InvestorDaily, with a focus on funds management, superannuation, and institutional investment. Previously, she covered small business and entrepreneurship news at Dynamic Business and multicultural issues at Indian Link Media Group. In 2022, she was named Young Journalist of the Year at the NSW Premier’s Multicultural Communications Awards.
Aware Super launches term deposits option
Aware Super members with minimum account balances of $15,000 can now invest a portion of their super dir
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Rhea Nath
Rhea L Nath is a journalist on Super Review and InvestorDaily, with a focus on funds management, superannuation, and institutional investment. Previously, she covered small business and entrepreneurship news at Dynamic Business and multicultural issues at Indian Link Media Group. In 2022, she was named Young Journalist of the Year at the NSW Premier’s Multicultural Communications Awards.
ART and AusSuper working together on super advice
Australian Retirement Trust and AustralianSuper are understood to be working together on how the two largest super funds can best help their members with advice.
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Laura Dew
Laura Dew is editor at Super Review. Prior to joining SR, she spent five years working at Investment Week in the UK covering asset and wealth management.
No fund or trustee has ‘fully cracked’ the RIC: APRA
APRA is worried that it “cannot be confident” that super fund trustees are adequately implementing the Retirement Income Covenant, and work is needed on three key areas.
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Laura Dew
Laura Dew is editor at Super Review. Prior to joining SR, she spent five years working at Investment Week in the UK covering asset and wealth management.
Class action against QSuper garners 15,000 claimants
Some 15,000 super fund members have signed up for a lawsuit against QSuper, alleging they were wrongly charged excessive premiums for their life insurance policies.
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Rhea Nath
Rhea L Nath is a journalist on Super Review and InvestorDaily, with a focus on funds management, superannuation, and institutional investment. Previously, she covered small business and entrepreneurship news at Dynamic Business and multicultural issues at Indian Link Media Group. In 2022, she was named Young Journalist of the Year at the NSW Premier’s Multicultural Communications Awards.
