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TCorp appoints financial markets manager

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026
... a half years. In the permanent role, he will oversee TCorp's funding strategy, balance sheet management, local government services and client risk solutions functions across the New South Wales government's financing and investment arm. Before ...

Treasury proposes options to block victim-survivors' super going to perpetrators

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026
... adding that it is unlikely draft legislation on the issue will be made available before the Federal Budget in May as the government does not wish to rush a decision. The government is still considering how such reforms should be applied in the case of ...

Big super to work with Canadian counterparts to drive investment

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
Australia's industry super funds and a raft of Canadian pension funds will work together to boost investment in their respective regions. A memorandum of understanding has been signed as part of the Canadian-Australian Pension Funds Investment Initiative ...

US exceptionalism may have peaked: ART

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
... to see more frequent and more severe disruptions," Parker said. "We also think this is a world where the demands on government to step up and do stuff is not going to go backwards. It's only going to go higher, whether it's to mitigate or to ...

Cbus calls for tax reform on TPD payouts in pre-Budget submission

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
... often needs to support them, their families and their recovery for the long term," Fok said. "We're calling on the government to simplify the tax settings on insurance-in-super payments, so members aren't left trying to untangle complex rules ...

MIS review ignores key issues: FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2026
... MISs are excluded from the CSLR." There are five recommendations the FAAA wants to see come to fruition. It wants the government to publish information on the reasons, including governance failings, that have contributed to the collapse of funds, and ...

Structural headwinds driving Australian capital offshore: Redican

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2026
... anywhere. "That is a good example of what is happening in the Australian economy at the moment," he said. "The federal government has got the foot to the floor on trying to get growth going, whereas the Reserve Bank has the handbrake on, preventing the ...

AFCA expands C-suite with three hires

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2026
... services, where she has led large, customer-facing teams. Most recently she was deputy secretary in the Australian government department of employment and workplace relations. She also spent more than seven years with the Australian Taxation Office in ...

Trump announces new US retirement plan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2026
... and tax benefits that many private corporations offer their employees under 401(k) plans. Under the new proposal the government would match employee contributions to both these plans and existing employer plans with no match, up to $1000 annually. According ...

Super moves: Mercer, AusSuper, Future Fund, VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
... to a previous job, Henri Nguyen has rejoined Super SA as a business relationship manager supporting South Australian government departments and agencies with their superannuation needs. Nguyen worked at the fund that looks after the retirement needs ...