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SMSFA reappoints Hay-Bartlem as chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
The SMSF Association announced that Scott Hay-Bartlem has been reappointed as its chair and will serve another two years. Hay-Bartlem joined the association as a director in July 2019 and was appointed chair in February 2022. With a background in law ...

Reforms will strengthen retirement advice: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
Reforms underway to expand financial advice will have positive ramifications for the SMSF and APRA-regulated sectors as it will ultimately uplift outcomes in the retirement phase for all Australians, industry experts say. The first day of the annual ...

Risk, compliance staff in hot demand

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
With regulatory demands showing no signs of slowing in 2024, experienced risk and compliance professionals remain hot property. According to Kaizen Recruitment director Amanda Chisholm, factors like RG97, the Financial Accountability Regime, regulators' ...

Aussies do not underspend in retirement, say super funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
... easier for members to switch into retirement products and lift the ban on making contributions to a retirement phase super account. It added that, with member consent, the government should notify super funds about members' eligibility for pensions and ...

Janus Henderson makes two senior appointments

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2024
... Price where he worked as a relationship manager. His prior experience includes working at BT Financial Group as a key account manager and practice specialist for accountants. Cassidy also worked at AMP in managerial roles for more than six years. MacDonald ...

Count posts positive results ahead of Diverger takeover

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2024
Count Limited (Count) increased its revenues by 6% over the six months to December 31, while increasing its statutory profits by 135%. The group's latest half-year results indicate its underlying EBITA is up by 9% to $5.436 million and statutory profits ...

Family offices choose private credit: Survey

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024
Family office chief investment officers across the globe intend to allocate more capital towards private credit this year, according to new research by KKR. The global fund manager's annual Family office survey, now in its seventh year, found that ...

Rest faces class action over IP premiums

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024
... insurance without their active consent. It also claims that when members didn't make any contribution to their Rest account for 13 continuous months or more, the default income protection insurance policy didn't provide the member with any coverage ...

Commonwealth Bank slapped with $10.3m fine for wage theft

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2024
... a half-year profit of $4.8 billion. The FSU played a key role in detecting wage theft and holding Commonwealth Bank to account, according to Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) president Michele O'Neil. "Congratulations to the union that stood ...

Platforms ramp up innovation, back-end efficiencies

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2024
... Lifetime leads the way in offering a guaranteed stream of lifetime income that afford advisers the flexibility of a wrap account while granting clients a variety of tax and social security benefits. Meanwhile, HUB24 and Netwealth have natively integrated ...