Alex Dunnin Executive Director, Research & Compliance, Financial Standard (at time of writing)
ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2019 MySuper is not a backstop. It is not what you do with your superannuation while you figure what else you should do. It is ground zero and we need to start thinking about MySuper like the superannuation equivalent of Medicare or Public schools. Some ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019 Australia's superannuation sector in trying to digest the Productivity Commission's 700-page report with its 31 recommendations need to keep in mind the massive structural problems it is trying to fix. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | SUNDAY, 9 DEC 2018 What was Australia's top performing super fund in FY 2018? Read more ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018 Hold the front page, the super fund fee landscape has reset. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018 Everyone repeat after me: the Productivity Commission report is just a draft, it is not government policy and it will be a long while before the Federal Government responds let alone announces any legislation changes. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018 In one of the most important media releases issued by a super regulator in recent years, ASIC imposed an infringement notice on Tidswell Financial Services and Spaceship Financial Services. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017 Late last month a few enthusiastic business people got a super fund roundtable together to publicly plead why they need Australia's superannuation funds to directly lend them money. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017 Australia's Future Fund chair and former Federal Treasurer Peter Costello is enjoying his job. So much so that at an industry conference last month he mischievously floated the idea that the Future Fund Management Agency (FFMA) should take over the ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017 As the superannuation and managed investment sectors get ready to implement the new RG97 fee regime, we should take a moment to marvel at what we are witnessing. It's not often we see such a display of multi-layered complexity thrown at what is essentially ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017 Australia's superannuation system is a national treasure with two primary goals: helping Australians save for retirement and investing in nation building. But does it have a third: fixing not just Australia's physical infrastructure but its social i ... Read more |
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The super, super fund
DEANNE STEWART
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
AWARE SUPER
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
AWARE SUPER
Aware Super has marked its expansion into Europe with the grand opening of its London office.