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Scammers prey on lonely hearts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2022
... This Valentine's Day, Westpac and the ACCC's Scamwatch is urging people to be aware of love scams. Scamwatch found Australians had lost $56 million to love scams last year. This particular breed of scams appears to be on the rise, with 44% more lost ...

$450 super threshold scrapped

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2022
... executive Deanne Stewart said: "The threshold was arbitrary and illogical. It punished hundreds of thousands of low-income Australians in part-time and casual work - including young people finding their feet in the workforce and casual employees in the ...

Advisers can step up to retirement planning boom

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2022
... "a huge market of people either retired or thinking about retirement". Advisers have a key role to play in helping Australians align their retirement with their financial situation and therefore their own financial reality. "That's often very hard ...

Retirement Income Covenant, CCIV reforms pass

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2022
... calls for stronger impartial, quality financial advice provided on retirement options. "To make the most of this, Australians will need to be better supported to navigate the complexity an increased product range will bring," he said. "We also continue ...

AFA Practitioner Community appoints new leaders

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022
... network of aspiring advisers, and Aspire, which connects female advisers, to have a common goal, help hear the voices of Australians and bring positive change to the profession, Cachia said. "Now is the time to essentially draw the line in the sand ...

Foundation rolls out financial literacy program for students

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022
... through an engaging and interactive learning experience," she said. A recent survey commissioned by Ecstra of 2049 Australians conducted over December 2021 to January 2022 found that over half of teachers (52%) have not taught financial education at ...

AustralianSuper appoints retirement solutions lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2022
AustralianSuper has appointed a new lead for its retirement solutions unit, welcoming the former chief executive of a fund it recently merged with. Stefan Strano became the $244 billion super fund's business lead for retirement solutions effective ...

Super baby bonus proposed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2022
... could benefit up to 300,000 women. "While the superannuation system is well-designed and working for the majority of Australians, there is a significant gap of 23.4% in superannuation balances between men and women as they approach retirement," ASFA ...

Super funds failing on animal protection

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2022
... currently have such policies. World Animal Protection interim country director Ben Pearson said: "The reality for most Australians is that their super could be funding some of the cruellest industries like intensive factory farming, live animal export ...

Vanguard move a win for SSGA, BlackRock

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2022
Vanguard's decision to hand back institutional mandates has been good news for State Street Global Advisors, BlackRock and several other managers, analysis shows. In October 2020 Vanguard announced it would hand back mandates to super funds ahead of ...