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Treasury launches retirement phase consultations

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
... adopted and implemented. Some of the questions asked to stakeholders include if any additional areas relevant to the construction and offering of quality retirement income solutions should be included in the principles? And what are the impediments to ...

Cbus appoints member director

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2025
... and media industry super funds between 2005 and 2019. According to the Cbus website, he is a board member of the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) and proxy on the Construction Long Service Leave Board (CLSB). In these roles Gordon reviews ...

Former Qantas Super investment chief lands new gig

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2025
... as partner and chief investment officer. Omnia Capital Partners has welcomed Spence, where he will lead portfolio construction and asset allocation and grow the firm's institutional grade investment capabilities. Spence brings more than 30 years' investment ...

Overcoming the three-body problem in advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... value, duration - across one-year, three-years, 10 years... It's almost like a three-dimensional view of portfolio construction," he said. "When we produce those numbers, they all come with errors. We know that when these errors are very high, that's ...

Pinnacle backs private markets managed accounts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
... by FinCap to meet the more complex demands of private market investing, including liquidity management, portfolio construction and institutional-grade reporting. OpenInvest is a third-party investment platform provider which also has backing from Pinnacle. ...

Economic growth has 'moderated': CommSec

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025
... retail trade, housing finance, and business investment. Meanwhile South Australia ranks first on two indicators - construction work and dwelling starts," CommSec chief economist Ryan Felsman said. "Overall, the economic performance of Australia's states ...

Ascalon snags Evidentia executive

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
... Investment Partners as a senior investment consultant, where he advised financial advisers and institutions on portfolio construction, fund selection and investment governance. He also spent more than a decade at Lonsec Research, where he held senior ...

Financial services workers earn 12% pay rise

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2025
... Zealand, Hays found that the financial services sector led the pack in terms of salary growth during FY25-26. The construction (11.7%), IT and tech system design (9.6%), legal (7.8%) and mining (6.9%) sectors also reported strong salary growth. Such ...

Aware Super expands European footprint

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2025
Aware Super has announced it has acquired APG's stake in apartment-hotel owner and operator The July. Having already acquired a stake of the business in July 2020, it is now the majority shareholder. The announcement is a part of the super fund's ...

McKell Institute calls for CGT 'circuit breaker'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2025
... property investors to bid up the price of existing housing stock we should be encouraging them to contribute to the construction of new dwellings. Our modelling shows that with a couple of simple tweaks the government could stimulate supply without affecting ...