SUPERANNUATION

Superannuation

The emergence of the gig economy and other policy factors have resulted in Australia dropping to fourth place on the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index as northern Eur...

Superannuation

Industry Super Australia is urging the Government to legislate to compel employers to pay the superannuation guarantee at the same time they pay wages to overcome continu...

Features

Valid death benefit nominations offer security to clients, but advisers need to understand exactly how benefits will be paid out by super funds and ensure they fit with c...

Financial planning

Younger Australians are showing surprising levels of concern about retirement, with Roy Morgan finding that Generation Z is the most likely to ask friends and family for ...

Superannuation

Despite returning 2.1 per cent for the September quarter, the first half of October has seen a change of fortunes for super funds....

People & Products

SuperConcepts has confirmed a new chief technology officer following SuperMate founder, Kurt Groeneveld’s announcement that he will not renew his three-year contract. ...

Superannuation

AMP Limited has lost a key corporate superannuation mandate – Anglican National Super Plan – to Mercer....

Superannuation

The superannuation gap between women and men has shrunk “considerably” over the last decade, going from a gap of 9.1 percentage points in 2008 to 4.3 percentage points no...

People & Products

The AMP Superannuation Limited board and N.M Superannuation Proprietary Limited board have appointed two independent non-executive directors. ...

Policy & Regulation

A major industry superannuation fund has called for defined benefit funds to be excluded from the Government’s proposed new product intervention powers for the Australian...

Superannuation

Cbus has today announced its first direct offshore infrastructure investment, joining global pension fund partners in investing a stake in the United Kingdom ports group,...

Superannuation

New research from State Street confirms that good advice and policy certainty are keys to retirement happiness....

Superannuation

Major superannuation funds have expressed concern at having to retain at least 0.25 per cent of their funds under management to meet operational risk financial requiremen...

Life/Risk

MetLife has secured the insurance mandate of Tasplan, following a tender process which will see the insurer deliver group life offerings to the fund’s 145,000 members....

Features

William Truong breaks down which superannuation reforms advisers need to factor in for clients considering making personal super contributions....

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