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Industry Super Australia attacks Future Fund concept

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
The peak body for industry superannuation suggests defaulting workers' retirement savings into the Future Fund would be a costly mistake. According to Industry Super Australia, workers would be about $124,000 worse off if their superannuation was ...

FSC extends life code consultation deadline

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
... better job." The first iteration of the code was released on 2017, which included setting new definitions for cancer, heart attack and stroke in trauma.

Chief economist update: Bring on Aussie dollar depreciation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
"Capital Economics sees the local currency falling to US60c this year and hovering there through 2020; it previously forecast it at US65c for 2019 and US70c for 2020." (Australian Financial Review) That's a whopping 15%-16% drop from A$/US$ exchange ...

TAL and Zurich lead inflows, CommInsure lags: Strategic Insights

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Helen Troup accepted it misled FOS in the case of one claimant who suffered from a heart attack. It also made inappropriate challenges to its jurisdiction and failed to provide information requested that breached FOS' ...

AustralianSuper members exposed to security breach

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2019
... information occurred between July and September 2018. More than half (57%) of the incidents were caused by malicious or criminal attack, and about a third (37%) resulted from human error. A recent report from Deloitte highlights why super funds are particularly ...

Grattan says Aussies retiring comfortably, ISA responds

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... Association of Super Funds Australia (ASFA) chief executive Martin Fahy said Grattan Institute report was an "unprecedented attack". He slammed Grattan's call to shelve the 12% SG, saying it would put pressure on future taxpayers. Fahy also said ...

Cybercrime protection inadequate: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... in 2017 globally. "Leaked classified government hacking tools have made ransomware even more dangerous, enabling greater attack and tooling sophistication. The persistence and relentlessness of cyber adversary campaigns indicate that ransomware popularity ...

Train staff on privacy risks: OAIC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has called for staff training on how to identify and prevent privacy risks, as financial services recorded the second highest number of data breaches in the third quarter of 2018. In its report of ...

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... inflation measures embedded in the US National Accounts would surely give President Donald Trump more ammunition on his verbal attack on the US Federal Reserve. This is because despite persistently strong and unquestionably above-potential growth in ...

Cybersecurity fit for a $16bn insurer

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... cyber threat scenarios to IAG's business through modelling. Cameron gave two examples: a distributed denial of service attack which would limit its ability to service its clients, and a mass data breach. Next, the working group engaged a wider community ...