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Funeral insurer fined $4.75m

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2025
... wholly owned subsidiary of Youpla Group (then ACBF Group), offered its funeral expenses insurance policy Aboriginal Community Funeral Plan (ACF Plan) primarily to Aboriginal consumers, ASIC said. Both entities have been in liquidation since 2022. The ...

Mental illness payouts balloon over $2.2bn: CALI

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2025
... ahead." "It's a square peg in a round hole and clear evidence that more needs to be done to build a mentally fitter community," Cupitt said. "Insurers will always be there for the Australians who are most deeply affected by mental ill health but we are ...

Rest Super loses investment risk lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... educational stint at Rest, I will be taking some time off before looking for my next opportunity," he told his LinkedIn community. "Having now worked at three profit-to-member funds, I'm not sure if I'll have enough time left in my career to ...

Platinum executives depart amid merger talks

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... team's process and people. "I left Platinum on 3 July, after 18 great years in the last 22," he told his LinkedIn community. "A varied and fulfilling journey, with great memories of clients and staff," Meanwhile, Brooks has landed at Atrium, the ...

APRA expects 'no cutting corners' with CPS230

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
... "Ultimately, safety is important. There is a need to make the right investments in your business to enable your ability to meet community expectations for safety. I think that's certainly something we're definitely seeing now," she said. APRA ...

Chalmers opens economic reform consultation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
... for long term economic reform," Chalmers said. "This initial group includes leading voices from business, unions, the community sector and our key economic institutions. "This is a representative group that we're asking to provide ideas and build and ...

Super funds given reprieve from Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
... development on Section 899 is a really welcome one for Australians and for the Australian business and institutional investor community," Chalmers said. Section 899 would have introduced retaliatory tax increases as high as 20% on specific income categories ...

Desktop Broker to deliver direct indexing via partnership

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... - giving advisers powerful tools to deliver more value to their clients. "Our focus is on building what the investor community not only needs today, but will demand in the future, and this partnership enables us to provide our unique services to a wider ...

Dodgy dentist defrauds members after draining super for medical procedures

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
... National Health Service (NHS) through forged patient declarations. He received a suspended jail sentence and a 200-hour community work order in 2012 after pleading guilty to 69 counts of theft. After relocating to Australia, Hurst was permitted to continue ...

Nominations open for 2025 Power50

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
... advisers who continue to raise the standards for the profession and provide outstanding service to clients and the wider community. This year, we celebrate the Power50 list's 12th anniversary, which has recognised 282 advisers as part of the alumni. ...