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Swan tells Bragg he won't front parliament

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024
Cbus chair Wayne Swan has declined an invitation to front the Senate Economics Committee over issues with the fund's recent board appointments and claims handling delays. In a letter to committee chair Senator Andrew Bragg, Swan thanked Bragg for the ...

Gensler to leave SEC in January

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024
... Senate and was to serve a five-year term through to 2026. Before joining, he was professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He also previously served as chair of the Maryland Financial Consumer ...

Cbus confirms CFMEU nominations to board

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2024
... nominations were questioned last week by Senator Andrew Bragg when Cbus chief executive Kristian Fok fronted the Senate economics committee. When asked whether he believed the nominations would pass the 'fit and proper persons test', Fok said ...

Intergenerational wealth picture 'bleak': Grattan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2024
Grattan Institute chief executive Aruna Sathanapally said it is the job of all Australians to ensure the younger generations have a "sense of hope" about the future rather than the sense that they are being "systematically screwed over". Speaking at ...

Super lobbies call for death benefit reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024
... the Super Members Council (SMC) and the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) have told the senate economics committee that Australians deserve better outcomes from their super funds, but said reforms are needed. ASFA chief executive ...

Cbus board still considering CFMEU directors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024
... underperforming Maritime Super for many years prior to its merger with Cbus. Senator Andrew Bragg, as chair of the Senate Economics References Committee, asked Fok whether O'Mara, Crumlin and Weber are members of the Cbus board. "The board is considering ...

Wages grow 3.5% for the year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2024
The Wage Price Index rose 0.8% in the September quarter and 3.5% for the year, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). ABS head of price statistics Michelle Marquardt said this was the first time annual wage growth ...

Australian economy 'fundamentally sound': CBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2024
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) chief executive Matt Comyn painted a positive picture for the Australian economy, despite ongoing cost-of-living pressures. Comyn said high interest rates are doing the job of bringing inflation under control, but the pace of ...

intelliflo partners with Capital Preferences

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2024
... provide interactive assessments to help advisers better understand client preferences backed by science and behavioural economics. Stephen Wirth, the Australia product strategy lead at intelliflo, said the integration helps advisers boost acquisition ...

Platinum seeks insto managers, new asset classes

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2024
... in their name. "[We] would help them get it into the marketplace using our brand and our reach and we would split the economics with them as such. So, the keys for us would be a large, established manager with very distinctive performance and track records ...