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PROFILE: AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... opportunity to professionally affiliate with several representative groups. She is a fellow of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) and earlier this year Wade ceased her non-executive director role at Women in Super. She said the ...

Reform summit must keep momentum: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said it supported open discussion at the National Reform Summit and believes the focus should remain on directing resources where the super system needs improvement. ASFA believes the super ...

Australians are hardly retirement ready

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... of what is considered to be comfortable retirement savings ($58,444). This is based on the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) retirement standards released in March 2015, although ASFA recently updated the standards. Take away the ...

Put your tax return in to super

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... solution to raising the extra $130,000 A needed for a comfortable retirement as suggested by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) earlier this week. Club Plus Super chief executive, Paul Cahill, said tax refunds are by no means ...

Australians need another $130,000 for retirement: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
The idea you will need $1 million in retirement appears to be further busted after the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) released its latest retirement standard. However the updated ASFA figure suggests Australian's will need to ...

Scrapping dividend imputation costly for retirees

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... will have long-term effects on Australians' retirement savings. This is the belief held by Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chief executive Pauline Vamos. Yesterday ASFA released research that showed abolishing dividend imputation would ...

ASFA concerned about board governance timeline

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) is concerned about the timeframe for approving transition plans to have at least one-third independent directors on super fund boards. In a letter to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... chair of Icon Water, Actew AGL and EG Funds Management, will replace Jim Minto as chair of The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia. BetaShares appoints CIO - BetaShares portfolio manager Louis Crous has been promoted to chief investment ...

Extend compulsory super to self-employed: ASFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... force is self-employed and compulsory superannuation should include at least some of them, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said. "Only a relatively small number of the self-employed have business assets sufficient to support ...

ISA voices strong opposition to "radical" super reform

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... rational or compelling basis, and will undermine the representative trustee system." However, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) endorsed the government's proposal of having one third of independent directors in super fund ...