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HAFF receives first round commitments

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
Housing Australia and the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA) have announced commitments to the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) under the first funding round. Housing Australia has selected an initial pipeline of 185 projects to potentially ...

Pensioners to pay more under aged care reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024
... government will pay $3.30, Wells said. At the same time, new funding will be made available to help elderly people stay at home longer, rather than enter residential care. This will come in the form of a new home care assistance program called Support ...

Mercer awarded mandate for North's APS CoreSeries

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024
... "We're always looking for ways to serve more advisers and increase the number of independent financial planners who call North home, which is why we're focused on expanding North's investment menu and delivering further additions aimed at increasing ...

Vote for Financial Standard in Australian Financial Industry Awards

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024
... presented on November 22 at a gala dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel Sydney. If you'd like to see Financial Standard take home the award for Superannuation/Financial Services Industry Media of the Year - People's Choice, click here to vote.

New global chiefs for abrdn, Schroders

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024
UK fund managers abrdn and Schroders named their new respective chief executives, both of whom were promoted to the top job. abrdn made Jason Windsor its permanent chief executive after he took the post in an acting capacity in June from Stephen Bird. ...

Former director sentenced for misappropriating investor funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2024
The former director of Reiwa-Capital has been sentenced to home detention after he was found guilty of misappropriating $440,000 of investors' funds, including gambling some of it. Russell Sandiford was sentenced to two years and eight months imprisonment ...

Financial Standard wins Impact Award

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2024
... encouraging growth, building strong partnerships, and driving the evolution of the investment industry." Financial Standard took home the award for Financial Services Publication of the Year, an honour that recognises a "publication or adviser information ...

APRA alleges First Super co-chair breached director duties

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2024
... TISS, and Pulp and Paper Workers Superannuation Fund (PPWSF) merged to create First Super as it is today. First Super is home to some $4.8 billion in funds under management on behalf of about 81,000 members. Its other co-chair is Mike Radda.

Rest hires two general managers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024
... joins from Nine, where she was strategic projects director for the past year. Before that she served as general manager of home loans at Domain, and has also held roles with Potentia Capital, BrickX, and Deloitte. "Kareene will play a key role in nurturing ...

Too much being asked of super trustees: Levy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2024
... trustees to fix Australia's housing problem. Levy said she is sympathetic to the housing crisis, noting that she agrees owning a home does help in retirement, but said it shouldn't be on super trustees to solve the issue by using super for housing. "We ...