SUPER FUND

Financial planning

The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has advocated for banning unsolicited calls to consumers from advisers and financial planning businesses. ...

People & Products

The acquisition of Government home equity scheme specialist Pension Boost has seen Household Capital become the largest provider of home equity retirement funding in Aust...

Funds management

The industry super fund owned firm is proposing a new way to finance infrastructure construction to help “kick-start” the economy. ...

People & Products

Administration and consulting firm MMC has acquired super fund administrator IFAA....

Superannuation

This has improved its advice services which comes at no extra cost to members and is accessible outside Brisbane’s normal business hours....

Superannuation

A major industry fund has told a Senate Committee that the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s heatmaps got it wrong because of classification errors....

Life/Risk

Five terminal illness claims and two death claims have already been turned away by Hostplus for members unaware of the PYS changes and the fund believes this is just the ...

Superannuation

First State Super is one of 30 firms that have joined a UN alliance in a bid to deliver Sustainable Development Goals....

SMSF

SMSFs that fail to lodge annual returns by the due date and have their compliance status changed do not have the right to appeal to the AAT as the SuperFund Lookup websit...

Policy & Regulation

A new frequent flyer promotion by AustralianSuper has generated criticism from some financial advisers....

Superannuation

Sunsuper’s chief executive, Scott Hartley, has announced he will depart the super fund following the appointment of a successor, as he was looking for a new challenge....

Superannuation

Financial advice technology firm, Midwinter, has announced its recent partnership with BUSSQ superannuation fund....

Superannuation

The superannuation industry appears split on whether political advertising represents a breach of the sole purpose test, but most believe the test needs changing, in any ...

Superannuation

There’s a new kid on the superannuation block with Mercer and Kogan.com announcing this morning that they will together launch a new “no frills, ultra-low fee” super fund...

Superannuation

First State Super chief executive, Michael Dwyer has received an industry lifetime achievement award....

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