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Super moves: PE exec quits Future Fund for ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... Manager from 2019 to 2021. Since then, he has held senior management positions at Macquarie Bank, ANZ Bank/OnePath, and National Australia Bank/MLC. Most recently, he served as senior manager of wealth financial control at Macquarie Bank. "We're ...

Pinnacle founder Ian Macoun unloads $77m of shares

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... provide an attractive yield." Notably, Pinnacle holds a 35% equity interest in Metrics Credit Holdings, in which the National Pension Service of Korea - the world's third largest pension fund - snapped up a 4.17% stake for $50 million in March. Macoun ...

Dodgy dentist defrauds members after draining super for medical procedures

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
... who was the director of Perth Dental Rooms, died last December. He was previously convicted of defrauding the UK's National Health Service (NHS) through forged patient declarations. He received a suspended jail sentence and a 200-hour community work ...

AFCA urges adviser clarity on SMSF wholesale investor test

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
... (BNPL) products, including low-cost credit contracts on June 10. As of 10 June, BNPL products are regulated under the National Credit Act and BNPL providers must hold an Australian Credit Licence. AFCA membership is mandatory for any holder of an Australian ...

Productivity woes endure in March quarter

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... problem demands dedicated attention from both business and government. Against this backdrop, Chalmers in his speech to the National Press Club on Wednesday said that productivity is the government's primary focus. Chalmers said that boosting productivity ...

Australia progresses climate transition disclosures, planning

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
Australia is showing progress with disclosing and adopting its clean energy transition initiatives as investors' demand for credible emissions reduction strategies grows, a study from MSCI shows. Among listed Australian companies analysed in the APAC ...

Chalmers champions productivity, urges tax reform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... made the case that sensible progress can't be made without proper consideration of more tax reform in a speech at the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday. Productivity, he said, which is too often regarded as "a cold, almost soulless, concept," ...

Future Fund cleared to manage select asset classes in-house

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... Future Fund's new Investment Mandate issued by the government last year, which requires it to consider Australia's national priorities - increasing the supply of residential housing, supporting the energy transition, and delivering improved infrastructure ...

CareSuper chief member officer to depart

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... has also left the board. The fund has also added two new directors - Robert Potter and Wayne Davy. Potter is a former national secretary of the Australian Services Union and former vice president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. He has also ...

Government to convene a productivity roundtable

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced at the National Press Club yesterday that Treasurer Jim Chalmers will convene a roundtable in August to support and shape the government's growth and productivity agenda. Albanese said the roundtable will bring ...