Featured Image

Rice Warner strengthens its client management team

  • On 12/12/2016
Rice Warner is a leader in providing consulting, research and technology solutions to financial services participants, partnering with clients to improve their business results. Rice Warner is eager to announce a new addition to our senior client relationship management team, Lee Sammartino. Lee is a creative and commercially-minded thinker with diverse senior leadership experience within […]
Read More
Featured Image

Financial advice after the super tax changes

  • On 08/12/2016
After a long period of opposition, the super changes put up in the May Budget and amended in September have been legislated. It is now over to financial planners to help clients navigate the biggest changes in the super tax system in a decade. While some familiar structures and strategies have been up-ended, the system […]
Read More
Featured Image

The growing influence of ETFs

  • On 24/11/2016
Large APRA regulated superannuation funds have a particularly strong motivation for including Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in their member-direct investment options. Member direct options are largely intended to stem the flow of members with big balances to self-managed superannuation funds, the earliest and strongest supporters of Australian listed ETFs. In short, no investment option designed […]
Read More
Featured Image

Rice Warner’s submission to the Productivity Commission: ‘Superannuation – alternative default models’

  • On 17/11/2016
The Productivity Commission (‘Commission’) has been asked to examine alternative models for a formal competitive process for allocating default members to superannuation products. Further, it will develop a workable model that could be implemented to replace the current default model. In this submission, we argue that the structure of the current system can be improved, […]
Read More
Featured Image

Voluntary Insurance – Are More Risk Controls Needed?

  • On 09/11/2016
With group insurance claims experience being higher than had been expected over recent years, superannuation fund trustees have been reconsidering benefit designs and policy terms in order to ensure sustainability of the fund’s insurance arrangements. One of the key insurance risks is the risk of anti-selection by a small number of members which results in […]
Read More