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Most retirees who rent live in poverty: Grattan Institute

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025
... poverty, including more than three in four single women, and this problem is set to get worse, according to a Grattan Institute report. While the Age Pension provides an adequate, albeit modest income in retirement for those who own their own home - ...

ASX taps Westpac NZ chief risk officer

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2025
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has found a new chief risk officer, hiring from across the Tasman Sea. Westpac New Zealand chief risk officer Dirk McLiesh will join the ASX on March 3 following the retirement of Hamish Treleaven in September ...

$3m super tax will level playing field: Australia Institute

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
... which were shelved in late 2024, will make the system fairer particularly as many are doing it tough, The Australia Institute says. The Australia Institute chief economist Greg Jericho said the proposal to reduce the tax concession on balances over $3 ...

Grattan Institute renews calls for best-in-show super funds, partial annuitisation

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
The Grattan Institute is urging the government to mandate the partial annuitisation of Australians' superannuation and implement the 'best-in-show' list of funds to help simplify a "complex" system and allow retirees to spend their savings ...

GIC's investment chief to step down

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
... appointed CIO, replacing Lim Chow Kiat, who was named chief executive. On the latest data from the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute, GIC oversees US$800.8 billion, making it the seventh-largest sovereign wealth fund. As investment chief, Jaensubhakij ...

AI can improve super fund value chain: CFA Institute

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
... corner of the value chain to ultimately provide efficient, personalised services to members, new research from the CFA Institute found. The Pensions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence report canvassed investments and technology experts from the UK ...

Three universities ditch financial planning courses

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
... Queensland University, Charles Sturt University, Curtin University, Deakin University, Griffith University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, University of Canberra, University of New England, University of ...

Super moves: Future Fund, Aware Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... maximize whole-of-portfolio risk-adjusted returns over a multi-year time horizon. She joined Future Fund from The George Institute for Global Health, where she worked as a research analyst responsible for data collection, analysis, and publication of ...

Superannuation tax shakeup proposed by Actuaries Institute

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024
A discussion paper commissioned by the Actuaries Institute has proposed a three-pronged tax reform package aimed at making the superannuation system less complex, more equitable, and sustainable. The professional body argued that the complexity of taxes ...

Former abrdn MD takes on chief executive role

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
Hearts and Minds Investments (HM1) has announced current chief executive Paul Rayson will step down from the role, effective 19 February 2025. Rayson has been chief executive since the company was founded and listed on the ASX in November 2018. Hearts ...