 Alex Dunnin Executive Director, Research & Compliance, Financial Standard (at time of writing)
ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021 So, Vanguard is launching a retail super fund. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021 It's time for super fund group insurers to start panicking. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021 It's time to dispel some of the mythology around financial illiteracy, disengaged fund members and how consumers are supposedly incapable of digesting complex information and making smart decisions. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021 The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. And people sure like talking about Future Super. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021 Lifecycle super started with so much promise and such a compelling value proposition. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020 A former Commonwealth minister for superannuation once told me that you can tell a lot about an industry by the things it complains about. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020 "Dedicated to the workers of Australia." Read more ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020 Climate emergency. Bushfire crisis. Whatever buzz word a superannuation fiduciary wants to use to galvanise their trustee board into 'climate action', they need to calm down, slow down. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020 Super funds are run by trustees. They are the fiduciaries, they are who the regulators come for when something goes wrong. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019 Here we go again. The Future Fund releases its annual performance results and a swooning media is infatuated. Read more |
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