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Open letter from 14 super funds calls for bill to be revised to represent interests of traditional owners

Australian policymakers need to provide a longer-term superannuation regulatory framework as the industry struggles to keep up with consistent change, according to JANA.

The continual repetition of the phrase ‘past performance is no guarantee of future performance’ is at odds with a “blunt” superannuation performance test based entirely on past performance, according to Vision Super.

Darmanin’s association with the ASU began as a member and active workplace delegate, from Berry Street Victoria in 1997 and became branch secretary in June 2018, and their first female branch executive president elected in 2014. She was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll for Women in 2016 and was the inaugural winner of the Zelda D’Aprano Activist Award by Victorian Trades Hall Council in 2015 as most outstanding female activist for her work in the community services equal pay case and...

Despite the coronavirus pandemic-induced recession and resulting sharemarket meltdown, your retirement kitty has probably bounced back amazingly well.

Despite the coronavirus pandemic-induced recession and resulting sharemarket meltdown, your retirement kitty has probably bounced back amazingly well.

Santos first target of wider fossil fuel exit campaign Feb 4, 2021 – 12.00am Share Activist investor group Market Forces is widening its radical campaign that asks ASX-listed fossil fuel companies to plan for their own demise in order to align with Paris climate goals, kicking off with a resolution put forward to Santos. Woodside Petroleum, Oil Search, Whitehaven Coal and New Hope Corporation will be among the others to be targeted by Market Forces this year in an expansion of the strategy it...

Retail, ethical options among 2020’s top funds Retail, ethical options among 2020’s top funds Retail and ethical funds are among the top balanced funds in 2020’s super performance figures, with a number of industry funds topping the tables for longer-term performance. A A The Suncorp Brighter Super Pers – Suncorp Multi-Manager Growth Fund returned 9.6 per cent for the calendar year, scoring the highest among balanced options. It was followed by Australian Ethical (8 per cent) and Vision...

Suncorp had the highest-performing balanced superannuation option during the 2020 year, being one of two retail funds to top the list from research house SuperRatings.

“2020 highlighted the long-term nature of super and the importance of patience,” he said.   “Members who sat tight generally did OK. Sadly, there were many others who panicked when markets fell and switched their investments to cash or a more conservative option. Not only would they have crystallised their losses, but they would also have missed out on some or all of the subsequent rebound.  “And, of course, there were those who withdrew their money from super completely. That’s un...