Episodes

  • Addressing loneliness can reduce risk of stroke and heart disease

    Addressing loneliness can reduce risk of stroke and heart disease
    Dec 15 2022
    AIA partners with Ending Loneliness Together to combat chronic loneliness, helping improve the mental health and physical health of members and staff by reducing the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke and premature death.
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    36 mins
  • Some bold reforms are needed to bring retirement advice to masses

    Some bold reforms are needed to bring retirement advice to masses
    Nov 29 2022
    Jeremy Cooper, former chairman, Retirement Income at Challenger, and Kate McCallum, director and wealth adviser, Multiforte Financial Services, bring to life the realities of retirement advice – where it is now, how it can be better and what to retiring Australians really need to know. Both Cooper and McCallum praise Michelle Levy’s Quality of Advice Review for its call for bold reforms in the sector that they believe will remove barriers for more Australians to access good advice.
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    43 mins
  • Equity in Super – age, income, gender and more

    Equity in Super – age, income, gender and more
    Nov 22 2022
    Speakers: David Knox, senior partner and actuary, Mercer Australia and Deborah Ralston, professorial fellow, Monash University and guardian board member, Future Fund, talk to Julia Newbould, managing editor, Conexus Financial on the need to broaden the super system to increase equity for both PAYG and the self-employed, low income earners, high income earners and home owners , non-home owners, men, women and those who retire voluntarily and unexpectedly.
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    36 mins
  • Alignment with managers the key to ESG integration

    Alignment with managers the key to ESG integration
    Oct 30 2022
    Skye King, head of ESG and Responsible Investment at NGS Super, and Fiona Mann, head of listed equities & ESG and LGIA Super and Energy Super – now Brighter Super, talk to Fiona Reynolds, chief executive, Conexus Financial about ESG and what it means to investors today. With ESG now in the mainstream, leading superfunds are turning to their relationships with managers to ensure responsible investment considerations are integrated at all levels of decision making. Making sure managers are best in class in seeking out responsible investment considerations is essential to integrating ESG into portfolios.
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    44 mins
  • APRA’s MySuper performance test a surface-level success

    APRA’s MySuper performance test a surface-level success
    Oct 5 2022
    Despite reporting improved outcomes for members, the release of APRA’s second MySuper performance test results masked the unintended consequences of the test in its current form, experts say.
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    45 mins
  • Members ‘willing to pay for better service’ post retirement

    Members ‘willing to pay for better service’ post retirement
    Sep 27 2022
    Superannuation funds are laser focused on the numbers around cost and performance for members, but aren’t always up to par on member experience, particularly post-retirement, experts say. When facing a difficult choice between keeping fees as low as possible or investing some revenue in better systems to help members engage, data shows members are willing to pay for a better experience.
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    52 mins
  • Good advice, flexible individual solutions critical to the best retirement outcomes

    Good advice, flexible individual solutions critical to the best retirement outcomes
    Aug 22 2022
    Jacki Ellis, head of retirement segment, Aware Super, Dr David Bell, executive director of The Conexus Institute and Julia Newbould, managing editor, Conexus Financial talk all things retirement income policy. We start with a brief history of retirement income policy, take a look at present retirement income policy and finally explore the principles-based approach of the Retirement Income Covenant which gives funds the flexibility to focus on the best outcomes for individual members despite challenges remaining in measuring success and providing tailored advice.
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    45 mins
  • Super’s highly unlevel playing field, and what we need to do about it.

    Super’s highly unlevel playing field, and what we need to do about it.
    Apr 22 2022
    Cate Wood, a former national chair of Women in Super and past president of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees speaks in depth with Robbie Campo, a Cbus executive and passionate advocate for the economic security of women in retirement about equity in super, why women are still falling behind their male peers, the thorny issue of tax concessions and the problems which will be faced by an aging Australia
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    45 mins