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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 ...

Small construction firms drag productivity: CEDA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
... just 17%. Conversely, labour productivity grew by 58% in manufacturing over the same period. Small construction firms' poor productivity is contributing to such inefficiencies, starting with the fact that they are less able to achieve economies of ...

Inside Colonial First State's fund manager selection overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... are shown the door. Underperformance alone isn't a reason to sack a manager, he said. It's more about whether their poor results conform to expectations. For instance, a deep-value manager would've been expected to underperform for much of ...

The top-performing (and worst) asset classes of the past year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
Mercer's annual periodic table, which charts 17 major asset classes investment returns on an annual basis over the last decade, reveals that there's few reliable themes, except that greater risk tends to be rewarded by greater return. Equity ...

Macquarie reprimanded again for derivatives compliance failures

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
... decade, ASIC said, forcing it to impose licence conditions on Macquarie. Macquarie's "control weaknesses" ranged from poor change management practices, unclear roles and responsibilities, and an incomplete understanding of its own processes and controls ...

Datt Capital sets in motion Koonenberry Gold board spill

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2025
... 30-day volume-weighted average share price metric. "The board's new proposal departs from past practice and represents poor governance. Our proposed board candidates have the skills and proven track record to build and maximise value for all shareholders," ...