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SMC highlights long-term benefits of investing in private markets

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
Super Members Council (SMC) has submitted a paper in response to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) discussion paper, outlining how superannuation investments in the private sector can drive long-term financial system stability ...

Vision Super defends new but 'archaic' policy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... fund did confirm the new policy. "Vision Super is committed to complying with the Privacy Act 1988. Australian Privacy Principle (APP) 8 outlines that before disclosing personal information to an overseas recipient, reasonable steps must be taken to ...

Industry bodies call for delay to Payday Super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
... penalties where there are no signs of deliberate non-compliance. "Payday super is a significant reform that we support in principle, but we need to get the balance right," CA ANZ group executive, advocacy and international development Simon Grant sai ...

FAAA calls for stronger consumer protections in advice reforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
The Financial Advice Association of Australia (FAAA) has opposed collective charging for "always complex and costly" retirement planning advice and emphasised the need for consumer protection in the provision of super nudges in its submission to Treasury ...

Coalition's super on PPL plan 'deeply worrying'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
The Coalition has confirmed that it plans to make paying superannuation on Commonwealth Paid Parental Leav e (PPL) optional for working mothers, as a $158 million budget saving measure. The Coalition's election costings revealed several cost-saving ...

Frontier Advisors lands major mandate from asset management giant

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
Frontier Advisors has won a mandate from Japan's $350 billion Nissay Asset Management, which is part of the Nippon Life Insurance Group. The mandate will allow Nissay to tap into Frontier's institutional intelligence to support its pension clients. ...

Coalition targets 'ambitious' goal of 30k advisers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2025
... advisers. The numerical target would also be embedded in ASIC's Statement of Expectations and would serve as a guiding principle, ensuring financial advice regulation must be focused on reducing costs, building the industry and ensuring Australians have ...

Modern family offices want values aligned, pioneer companies

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025
... forefront of change and looking for those opportunities ahead". "That is something that definitely remains a fundamental principle for us today," she said, noting that the business' values and principles filter through how it invests. "What we put ...

Trump Media to launch ETFs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
Trump Media and Technology Group, the operator of social media platform Truth Social, has signed a non-binding agreement with Crypto.com to roll out a suite of branded ETFs through Truth.Fi, its financial services and fintech brand launched in January. ...

Tranche 2 of DBFO dumps SOAs, enables 'nudges'

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
The long-awaited Tranche 2 of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes draft package has been released, switching Statements of Advice for Client Advice Records and clarifying what topics super funds can collectively charge for. However, some elements ...