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New government must prioritise payday super: SMC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
Super Members Council (SMC) is urging Australia's newly elected government to pass the payday super legislation as a matter of priority within its first 100 days in power. The council's analysis found that in 2021-22, about $5.1 billion of super went ...

AustralianSuper says cyberattack losses total $750k

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... sources to access accounts to commit fraud," he said. "Unlike other recent cyber incidents reported in the media over the last few years, cyber criminals did not access our systems." At this stage, it appears AustralianSuper was the only super fund to ...

ASIC asks for input on reportable situations, IDR dashboards

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... way to go in complying with the reportable situations regime. Reviewing the compliance arrangements of 14 licensees that had few or no situations reported between October 2021 and June 2024, ASIC found licensees were generally slow to report to ASIC ...

Cbus plays it steady amid rocky start to the year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
... possibility markets will overact in the weeks ahead, this could open the door to buying opportunities. But so far, the fund has made few changes. Internalisation Cbus manages about 36% of its portfolio internally, with plans to lift that figure to around ...

Trade war rattles pre-election economic outlook

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... flagged that economic activity, commodity prices and inflation are particularly at risk of destabilisation. "Over the past few days, there have been significant falls in oil prices and a depreciation of the Australian dollar. Both developments would ...

Super for housing would benefit 4% of homebuyers: ASFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... about 220,000 of the 5.3 million eligible first home buyers would be able to do this, showing the scheme will enable "very few" individuals to purchase a property. The data showed most eligible buyers have modest balances - half have less than $18,000. ...

Tariff impact on super 'profoundly worrying'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... could mean that many people will have to work longer to afford the kind of retirement they thought they were looking at just a few weeks ago." UniSuper chief investment officer John Pearce said while the tariffs were expected, the market meltdown was ...

Which fund managers are making the most from investor fees?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... may be paying more to active managers than they need to for a similar exposure via an index ETF. "Investing is one of the few things in life where the more you pay the less you get. Every saved dollar is more money in investors' back pockets. The Australian ...

Members press super funds for sustainable investments

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025
... world we are in and where it is going; it's changing before our eyes and it's not just about me and my retirement... A few years ago, it was much more polarised and I would say everyone has a collective view but a different intensity on that." ...

Cybercriminals attack major super funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025
Cybercriminals attempted to breach the systems of several superannuation funds over the weekend, although most attacks were repelled, thousands have been affected. Rest said fewer than 1% of its members have been affected by unauthorised activity on ...