A former manager in the aviation industry, Link Group's Suzanne Holden says there are more similarities in financial services than one might expect. She tells Darren Snyder how a past career helped transform the super fund administration giant. ... Read more

... trade while also holding back innovation to make financial services more efficient and competitive. These drags on our industry and the economy come at great cost to the clients and consumers we serve and are a threat to new jobs and future economic ... Read more

... in superannuation. Where once an individual journeyed through their career with a single employer or within a defined industry, there is now much greater transience. And at each juncture of change the individual has the responsibility to choose the superannuation ... Read more

The superannuation industry may bemoan perpetual inquiries but that didn't prevent a frenzied reaction to the Productivity Commission's latest issues paper into how the PC may recommend to government a new way of selecting or allocating employees to ... Read more

... decumulation is arguably the most transformational change confronting the SMSF sector and the broader superannuation industry over the next decade. The battle for growth will revolve around post-retirement products and services that provide members with ... Read more

... complete their courses let alone become suitable future educators. Superannuation and wealth management policy makers and industry leaders who want to rescue their sector's reputation could learn much from the education sector's journey. This is because ... Read more

Superannuation has become a political football of late and it is harming industry progress. I am certain there are industry representatives who will tell me super has always been a political football, and that it operates more like a returning boomerang. ... Read more

As a participant in the daily media landscape I would be unsettled to find superannuation funds and wider industry bodies that are ill-prepared for crisis management. For an industry in which millions Australians place not only their hard-earned money ... Read more

... members has made them more vulnerable to the financial scandals that have engulfed sections of the wealth management industry following the global financial crisis. These scandals triggered a wave of parliamentary inquiries that lead to massive policy ... Read more

If you ask industry consultant John Wiseman, the waves of baby boomers entering retirement are about to hit a perfect storm: longer lifespans, insufficient savings and record low interest rates. As recently published in Financial Standard, Wiseman said ... Read more