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IFM urges investment in housing, hires former Dexus chief

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... The report detailed the steps governments could take to boost investment to deliver appropriate risk-adjusted returns to workers' retirement savings and deliver housing at scale. The key recommendation in the report - aimed at doubling the Housing Australia ...

Top superannuation policy priorities for 2025: SMC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2024
... superannuation entitlements in 2021-22. The average affected worker - mostly women, people in insecure work, migrants, and younger workers - lost $1800 in super, which could result in $30,000 less in retirement savings. The government has committed to ...

Insignia taps SS&C, outsources 1000 workers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2024
Insignia Financial has tapped SS&C Technologies to transform its master trust business as part of its cost-cutting drive that is set to outsource more than 1000 of its employees to the fund administrator. The initial agreement sees SS&C providing technology ...

Permanent disablement claims for mental health explodes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
... greater assertiveness in pursuing insurance benefits," the report said. The research also indicated that white collar workers are most likely to be permanently disabled due to mental health conditions than blue collar workers, the increase in permanent ...

GESB renews administration mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
The fund for Western Australian public sector workers has renewed its mandate with MUFG Retirement Solutions. MUFG Retirement Solutions, formerly Link Group, has held the mandate since July 2014 when the Western Australian government first outsourced ...

WA super law reforms boost GESB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024
... been passed by both Houses of Western Australia's Parliament, benefiting the 250,000 current and former public sector workers who have super accounts with GESB. While the implementation date is yet to be confirmed, the new legislation enables existing ...

AI no silver bullet for advice process, documentation: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024
... exercise a degree of caution and ensure that anything it produces complies with regulation. A whopping 84% of Australian workers currently use AI, but a large percentage of these apps are not commissioned by the organisation, according to Retrac director ...

Self-regulation on the cards: FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024
... Occupation Shortage List. The financial advice occupation faces the same shortage as child carers, chefs, and aged care workers. In November, the FAAA signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB) India ...

Inconsistencies abound in Future Fund mandate change: Deloitte

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
... constraints which are holding back additional development rest largely on the supply side, with high materials costs, a lack of workers, and poor construction sector productivity," Deloitte said. "Like anyone balancing both risk and return, the Future ...

Work-related training boosts pay and productivity: CEDA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2024
Work-related training is declining in Australia, despite it bringing higher incomes for workers and increased productivity for employers, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has found. CEDA analysis of HILDA data shows workers' ...