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Regulators note advances in life insurers' practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... noted led them to revisiting past premium increases, and where premiums were increased without a clear right to do so, returned overpaid premiums to consumers and fixed the relevant systems and processes. The regulators also noted that life companies ...

Minimum wage to rise 3.5%

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... their everyday needs." It said the fact that the Reserve Bank of Australia is confident that underlying inflation has returned sustainably to the target range provided an opportunity to "go at least some of the way towards correcting what has happened ...

BlackRock hires Housing Australia treasury chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
BlackRock's new head of fixed-income and credit product strategy has returned to funds management after taking on key roles at Housing Australia, New South Wales Treasury, and TCorp. Katherine Palmer brings over 12 years of government balance sheet ...

ASIC sues former director of crypto platform owing nearly $60m

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... 2024 until September 20. On 23 September 2024, Guo left Australia following the expiry of the orders and has not yet returned, ASIC noted. Blockchain Global, currently in liquidation, operated a cryptocurrency exchange platform named ACX Exchange between ...

COVID 'masked' issues at core of productivity problem: PC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... to genuine improvements in output per worker. The labour market gradually recovered as lockdowns wound down and output returned faster than employment grew. In the "productivity loss phase" of the bubble, between June 2022 and June 2023, earlier productivity ...

Franklin Templeton, Pendal funds shutter

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
... Fund launched on 15 August 2008. It had $7.4 million at the end of April, according to Rainmaker Information. The fund returned 7.04% p.a. for the past year and 2.46% p.a. over the decade. It aimed to provide investors with exposure to the growth of ...

Super moves: Future Fund, WTW

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... Interestingly, a former WTW head of credit has rejoined the asset consultant as a director after a two-year break. Simon James has returned to the investment business in Australia to work with clients. In his role as a senior member of the credit manager ...

Rest lands new chief investment officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... a well-earned reputation for delivering value to members. Rest's default investment option, Rest Super - Growth, has returned 6% per annum over the decade to 31 March 2025, compared to the median comparable investment option, which stands at 6.5%, according ...

Prime Super calls time on sustainable option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
... return was 7%. Over three years, it's 21 st with a return of 3.3%; the median return was 4.8%. And over one year it's returned just 2.1% and ranks 33 rd, while the median was 4.6%. According to APRA statistics, only about 500 of the fund's 146,000 members ...

Vanguard ETFs claim first, second, and third place for inflows

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
... Bitcoin ETF (11.15%), the VanEck Bitcoin ETF (10.45%). Rounding out the top five was the VanEck Global Defence ETF, which returned 10.14%.