The government recently announced a raft of changes it wanted to see among industry and retail super funds (funds other than SMSFs) – prompted by the catastrophic losses suffered by Shield and First Guardian victims.
The prevailing wisdom in Canberra is that the trustees of these large super funds should have done more to protect members by better vetting the investments in the first place and limiting how much of any member’s super balance could be invested in a single investment.
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