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Financial services workers eye earlier retirement

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024
Men and women who work in financial services intend to retire earlier compared to the average worker, new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reveals. Men who work in the finance and insurance industries intend to retire at 64 years ...

Industry fund merger postponed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
Mine Super and TWUSUPER have reported "significant progress" towards their merger, but it has been pushed back. In a joint statement, the super funds announced that their merger to form TEAM Super has been rescheduled from early 2024 to early 2025. ...

Fidelity shutters, delists funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
Fidelity International is terminating an international fixed interest strategy that failed to scale, as well as delisting a managed fund. The Fidelity Global Short Duration Income Fund focuses on investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds that ...

Industry reacts to Federal Budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
Treasurer Jim Chalmers handed down the Federal Budget last night, delivering its second consecutive surplus as well as a raft of measures to ease the cost-of-living crisis. Despite many of the measures presented in the Budget having been announced prior ...

Budget 2024: Additional $11.3bn promised for housing

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
The Albanese government has made significant new housing investments in the Budget to help deliver a comprehensive Homes for Australia plan. "We're easing the cost of living - and we're building more homes for Australians. In the five years from this ...

Spaceship expands Voyager suite

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
Spaceship is launching two new Voyager portfolios, targeting investors with a lower risk appetite and shorter investment horizon. The Spaceship Explorer Portfolio and Spaceship Galaxy Portfolio bring the Voyager lineup of products to five, sitting alongside ...

UniSuper restores online services, app

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
UniSuper's systems are back online, after close to two weeks of disruption following the deletion of its private cloud. In an update today, UniSuper chief executive Peter Chun said online services across the fund's website and app have been ...

Rest calls for removal of minimum work hours for super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
Rest has urged the Australian government to remove the minimum hours rule for the superannuation guarantee to apply. Research conducted for Rest by CRNRSTONE found 82% of Australians think the law should be changed so that Australian workers - many ...

AFCA finds more Dixon Advisory victims

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) added 544 more Dixon Advisory-specific victims to total 2492 complaints at the end of April, which will further exacerbate the costs and levy financial advisers must pay. The Financial Advice Association ...

ASIC slams funds' serious deficiencies over advice fee charges

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024
A review by ASIC has found evidence of poor oversight of advice fee deductions by superannuation trustees, with some allowing charges of up to $20,000 before raising concerns and some not conducting any checks of advice documents at all. ASIC is calling ...
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