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This Investment Magazine podcast is an in-depth series of conversations with key decision makers, leaders, agitators and stake holders in policy, regulation and within the superannuation industry at a time when the system is being asked important questions about its purpose, efficiency and ability to deliver appropriate member outcomes.

12/15/2022

Addressing loneliness can reduce risk of stroke and heart disease

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.

36 min
11/29/2022

Some bold reforms are needed to bring retirement advice to masses

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.

43 min
11/22/2022

Equity in Super – age, income, gender and more

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.

36 min
10/30/2022

Alignment with managers the key to ESG integration

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.

44 min
10/05/2022

APRA’s MySuper performance test a surface-level success

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.

45 min
09/27/2022

Members ‘willing to pay for better service’ post retirement

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.

52 min
08/22/2022

Good advice, flexible individual solutions critical to the best retirement outcomes

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.

45 min
04/22/2022

Super’s highly unlevel playing field, and what we need to do about it.

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

45 min

This Investment Magazine podcast is an in-depth series of conversations with key decision makers, leaders, agitators and stake holders in policy, regulation and within the superannuation industry at a time when the system is being asked important questions about its purpose, efficiency and ability to deliver appropriate member outcomes.

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