Expert Analysis

Expert Analysis

The Stronger Super legislation will endow the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority with greater powers, but ultimately, it will be a question of how those powers ar...

Expert Analysis

With many superannuation funds and financial institutions adding retirement incomes products to their offerings, Mike Taylor writes that new Metlife research urges a need...

Expert Analysis

There is much to recommend the core contents of the Government's Stronger Super policy initiative, but it falls far short of delivering the certainty many superannuation ...

Expert Analysis

The controversy which has surrounded MTAA Super, combined with recent events elsewhere in the superannuation industry, suggest the use-by date applying to traditional tru...

Expert Analysis

Auto-consolidation of superannuation accounts may be an admirable objective but it should not be pursued in the absence of member consultation and choice. ...

Expert Analysis

A strategy that utilises put options can cushion investors against dramatic market downswings, writes Simon Ho....

Expert Analysis

The trustee boards of superannuation funds wield considerable power – something the Federal Opposition has suggested may need to be more closely scrutinised and opened to...

Expert Analysis

Superannuation funds are experiencing another round of mergers and consolidation, but whose interests are really being served? And will the funds become too big to fail?...

Expert Analysis

A recent court ruling means decisions to reject TPI insurance claims can now be challenged on much wider grounds, writes Jenny Willcocks....

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The Assistant Treasurer, Bill Shorten, says he has adopted the Cooper Review as a policy blueprint, but good sense demands that he fully test the concepts before they are...

Expert Analysis

The Government must pursue the doable priorities of product rationalisation and SuperStream or risk a policy implementation quagmire....

Expert Analysis

With the Australian Greens set to control the Senate in 2011, the superannuation industry should consider how its policies will affect future changes....

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Grant Banner

From my perspective, 40- 50% of people are likely going to be deeply unhappy about how long they actually live. ...

1 year 4 months ago
Kevin Gorman

Super director remuneration ...

1 year 4 months ago
Anthony Asher

No doubt true, but most of it is still because over 45’s have been upgrading their houses with 30 year mortgages. Money ...

1 year 4 months ago

Australia’s largest superannuation fund has confirmed all members who had funds stolen during the recent cyber fraud crime have been reimbursed. ...

4 days 12 hours ago

As institutional investors grapple with shifting sentiment towards US equities and fresh uncertainty surrounding tariffs, Australia’s Aware Super is sticking to a discipl...

4 days 13 hours ago

Market volatility continued to weigh on fund returns last month, with persistent uncertainty making it difficult to pinpoint how returns will fare in April. ...

4 days 13 hours ago