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Super performance test, DBFO reforms coming: Government

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2025
... investment in key areas like housing and the energy transformation." Chalmers said Treasury has set up a technical working group which is currently working on what changes may be needed and how to enact them. "That consultation will be really targeted ...

Actuaries Institute makes proposal to close advice gap

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... framework for closing the financial advice gap in Australia. The Actuaries Institute Help, Guidance and Advice (HGA) Working Group undertook extensive research and consultation to examine how different levels of support can be structured to better serve ...

Funds SA pushes for efficiencies with AI targets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2025
... Code-named 'AI-forward', it's being led by executive director of data and technology Emma James, who also sits on the AI working group of the South Australian government. "The intent is very much to figure out how we can use AI throughout the business. ...

ASIC calls out super 'leaders and laggards'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
ASIC commissioner Simone Constant has told super trustees more needs to be done to meet obligations under the Retirement Income Covenant. "We are three years into the Retirement Income Covenant now. Three years since trustees have been obliged by law ...

Superannuation is Australia's 'productivity engine': ASFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2025
... for public-private investment coordination; modernising of capital gain tax; and forming a productivity-focused working group within the Treasurer's Investor Roundtable. "The productivity challenge is not unique to Australia, but Australia has a unique ...

ASFA publishes new service standards on claims handling

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2025
... Financial Services Council. Former chair of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal Jocelyn Furlan chaired the broad working group. "This Service Standard will improve members' experiences in moments that matter. With strong collaboration across the sector ...

Aware Super beefs up sustainability team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... advisor to the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia's certification program and policy advocacy working group, she has also been involved with the Investor Group on Climate Change and Investors Against Slavery and Trafficking. Lucchese ...

Stockbroking faces 'perception problem'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... the industry. "We've been coming at it from a recruitment and a diversity perspective, from an industry and a working group sort of approach," he said. LGT Crestone chief operating officer Michelle Inns said while the industry does great work at ...

Advice bodies want efficiency, long-term solutions from Mulino

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... time management and efficiency, Macdonald added TAA will meet Mulino with other members of the Joint Associations Working Group (JAWG) "as most of their positions and recommended reforms very closely align with those that we are promoting to ensure consumers ...

BlackRock takes stake in Generation Life parent company

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
BlackRock will acquire a minority stake in Generation Development Group (ASX: GDG), forming a strategic partnership with its retirement income subsidiary Generation Life to "set a new standard for managing longevity and sequencing risk." Joint working ...