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Productivity woes endure in March quarter

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... extra hours of free time each year," she said. But with stagnating productivity over the past decade, "the rewards have been far less generous," with almost no improvement in output per hour worked since 2016. She said high average hours worked could ...

ART overhaul sees senior portfolio managers exit

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
Australian Retirement Trust's leadership overhaul has led to the departure of two senior portfolio managers. Ondre Ozer is set to leave ART as the country's second-largest superannuation fund moves to disband its investment resilience and planning ...

Australian wealth increases despite variable global growth: UBS

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... than most nations. The UBS Global Wealth Report 2025 shows that despite the global wealth increase, the speed of growth was "far from uniform" across the 56 markets analysed, with the growth tilted strongly towards North America and mainland China, which ...

CareSuper chief member officer to depart

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
CareSuper will soon bid farewell to its chief member officer, as it welcomes a new deputy chair and two board directors. Jean-Luc Ambrosi is leaving CareSuper in August after three years with the fund. He joined CareSuper from TelstraSuper, where he'd ...

ART farewells two more executives

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
Australian Retirement Trust's efforts to streamline its operations and restructure its leadership have led to the departure of two more senior executives. Julie Bingham, the chief enterprise services officer, is leaving the $310 billion superannuation ...

Government to convene a productivity roundtable

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... productivity is critical to boosting the economy. ACCI chief executive Andrew McKellar said productivity has been struggling for far too long and welcomed the comments by the Prime Minister about making it a priority. "As the latest national accounts ...

Super funds to take stock of information security controls

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... of CPS 234. Finally, all funds must advise APRA of their accountable person(s) under the Financial Accountability Regime (FAR) with responsibilities related to CPS 234 compliance, including specifics of those responsibilities. However, the funds which ...

Up to two million Aussies could face super tax: FSC

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... their retirement, respectively. While the indexed proposition will reduce that number to only 64,000. The worst outcome by far will be the $2 million threshold with no indexation scenario, affecting a staggering 1.8 million Australians, more than three ...

Super moves: TCorp, ESSSuper, Funds SA, Team Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
TCorp has promoted Tim Dai to manager of infrastructure, real assets and private markets investments. Dai previously served as a senior associate advising the New South Wales government on complex commercial transactions, leveraging his analytical skills ...

Syfe plots major Australian expansion

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
... this raise will help us deliver on that promise." The money raised was part of the company's Series C round, which has so far hit $123 million (US$80m).