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Return to office mandates to harm firms, careers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... being in place are becoming increasingly evident. The three main consequences identified are a lack of bonus payments, a poor annual review outcome regardless of performance, and risks to promotion and promotion oversight. However, what's most concerning ...

McKell Institute calls for CGT 'circuit breaker'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2025
A new paper from the McKell Institute calls for a major shake-up of capital gains tax (CGT) via a 'circuit breaker' proposal to the stalled national housing debate. The paper suggests increasing or decreasing the CGT discount is too simple of ...

Platinum, L1 merger to help fight 'organic business decline'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... added that he does not expect the potential merger to result in improved flows into Platinum's suite of funds "given their poor performance". "More broadly, the structural challenges facing traditional active managers like Platinum and L1 remain - namely ...

ASFA publishes new service standards on claims handling

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2025
... September last year. This comes after ASIC has called out the superannuation industry on numerous occasions this year around poor claims handling times. The new ASFA standard applies to insurance claims and certain claims for early release of superannuation ...

Super funds given reprieve from Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
... "This section of the legislation would have changed the risk return profile of investment in the US, which would have been a poor outcome for all involved. "The superannuation sector has around US$450 billion invested in the United States, the single ...

Super spending calls BFID compliance into question

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
... including some cases where performance wasn't measured against the original stated metrics in an agreement. It also found poor use and adoption of quantitative metrics, despite needing to measure financial outcomes for members. Most concerningly, APRA ...

ART makes sweeping changes to corporate super plans

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
... Plan, from July 1. Death, TPD and income protection premium rates will be changing for all members, with ART pointing to poor claims experiences for members. "While the plan has delivered value to members in need, the change in premium has been predominately ...

Investors face headwinds in integrating physical climate risks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
While investors are increasingly factoring physical climate risks into their decision making, there are several challenges to doing so, a review of public funds' experience has found. A new report from CPP Investments and thinktank OMFIF looks at how ...

Government to convene a productivity roundtable

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... and welcomed the comments by the Prime Minister about making it a priority. "As the latest national accounts figures show poor productivity rates persist, and on an annual basis is actually going backwards. The latest quarterly data shows GDP per hour ...

ASIC blasts managed funds' poor compliance plans

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
... different responsible entity. Consequently, these funds had no substantive compliance plan," ASIC said. Many REs exhibited poor practices of not addressing all regulatory obligations. For example, the review identified that most plans did not address ...