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Industry fund insurance bungle adds fuel to mounting outrage

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
Rest is the latest fund to botch its handling of insurance - this time for incorrectly charging uninsured members for coverage - adding to a growing pile of industry failures. Rest's mishandling comes as other major superannuation funds have been caught ...

FSCP deregisters adviser for two years

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025
A financial adviser who provided "incompetent" SMSF advice has been barred from practising in the industry for two years by the Financial Services and Credit Panel (FSCP). Glenn Paul Meilak helped clients set up SMSFs in a way that was "systemic" and ...

Bravura delivers profit, pays special dividend

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2025
Bravura has delivered an underlying net profit of $11.3 million in 1H25, up $13 million compared to 1H24. Following the turnaround in financial performance, Bravura said it is now able to recommence dividend payments. In addition, a special dividend ...

Almost half of HESTA members retire involuntarily

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025
Almost half (47%) of HESTA members retire involuntarily, according to new research commissioned by the super fund. The research - prepared by Evolved Thinking - surveyed more than 1800 pre-retirement health, aged care and community services (HACS) workers ...

Trump's tariff implications for Australian investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2025
US President Donald Trump has imposed a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico, and a 10% tariff on China, with the latter already in effect while the others have been delayed by one month, subject to border and drug conditions - what does this ...

FSCP orders adviser to undertake further education

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2025
A financial adviser who failed to provide appropriate superannuation contribution advice has been ordered by the Financial Services and Credit Panel (FSCP) to undertake further education. The adviser, referred to as "Mr. D", provided advice that led ...

ASIC initiates ASX outage probe

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025
ASIC has officially commenced an investigation into the ASX outage that occurred in late December. On 20 December 2024, the ASX experienced a "technical issue" on its CHESS Batch Settlement that disrupted and delayed several days' trade settlements. ...

Transfer balance cap to rise on July 1

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
While the official word will come from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) in March, the December 2024 inflation figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) yesterday confirmed the indexation of the cap. Currently $1.9 million, from ...

K2 appoints chief executive, wins mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
K2 Asset Management has named a new chief executive and won a $242 million mandate from an unnamed wealth manager. Hollie Wight has been promoted to chief executive after serving as managing director and head of responsible entity (RE) and trustee services ...

mFunds sparked ASX outage, $1m credit issued

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
The ASX said the outage from last month largely stemmed from the now-defunct mFunds and will subsequently credit participants $1 million to make amends. While several circumstances led to the glitch, the ASX traced the root cause to the introduction ...