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AustralianSuper to pay $4.2m for delayed claims handling

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2024
... ASIC put super funds on notice, writing to chief executives to express its concerns over death benefit claims processing times across the industry. The regulator said it is currently reviewing death benefit claims and will release a full report early ...

ASIC flags 'consistently weak' claims processes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2024
... has put super funds on notice, writing to chief executives to express its concerns over death benefit claims processing times across the industry. The regulator is currently reviewing death benefit claims and will release a full report early next year ...

Intergenerational wealth picture 'bleak': Grattan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2024
... disparity has become over the past 25 years between younger and older Australians. In 1994, 65-74-year-olds had roughly three times the wealth of those aged 25-34. But by 2020, this gap had widened substantially: the average household headed up by a ...

Fair Work ruling, ASIC put offshoring arrangements on notice

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024
... dismissed because she was not an employee but an independent contractor. Pascua worked from home at her computer during times that matched business hours in Australia. "She was allocated files by email each day and was required to liaise with clients ...

UK to follow Australia's lead in creating megafunds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024
... said. This is evidenced by the retirement systems of Australia and Canada, it said, with Australian funds investing three times more in infrastructure and 10 times more in private equity compared to the UK's defined contribution schemes. Funds in Canada ...

'No alternative': ESSSuper sues Iress

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024
... many poor reviews citing the administrative issues, disruptions and delays in accessing their money, including call wait times exceeding an hour and a half.

Fed cuts rates as Powell is questioned on Trump win

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2024
... "Chair Powell offered fewer insights as to how the Fed is thinking through the results of the US election, noting several times that he would not be answering anything election related," Shah said. "He did, however, offer these two nuggets: first, the ...

AustralianSuper bids farewell to retirement chief

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
... is different and deeply personal for each member," Schroder said. Blackmore was also a great leader through challenging times, most prominently, the COVID-19 pandemic, he said. "During that time Shawn worked tirelessly to ensure we fulfilled our obligations ...

Warakirri terminates Flinders fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024
... not a chartist and I've never met a rich one, but it's interesting that the small-cap market has bottomed three times at almost exactly the same level - in June and September last year, and in October this year... Each time it's bounced quite ...

Active managers find no saviour in dual access products

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024
... promising picture. The research, which examined dual access products listed before June 2023, found they were around four times the cost of owning the asset-weighted average of the rest of the ETP market. The total cost of ownership over one year was ...