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Nudging pre-retirees has 'little effect'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
The Australian government has recommended super funds use 'nudging' to help encourage members to engage more with their retirement savings, however new research from Yale University in the US has found the practice doesn't work as well as initially ...

Court freezes assets of company director

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
... potential use of investor funds to purchase a luxury motor vehicle, and real estate at Surfers Paradise in Queensland. "Even though ASIC's investigation is at an early stage, the evidence presently before the Court is quite extensive," Yates said. He ...

RBA doubling down on wholesale CBDC

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... of a wholesale CBDC. "This could allow for greater functionality than is possible with today's ESAs... Yet another (though less potentially transformative) possibility is that the supporting infrastructure for ESAs is upgraded, to provide for more ...

Genetic test results to no longer hinder life cover

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024
Insurers will no longer be able to use genetic test results in life insurance underwriting, with a total ban to be introduced by the government. Earlier this year, the government consulted on the use of genetic test results in underwriting life insurance ...

Global X's best three ideas for portfolio construction

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2024
... of exposure, a nearness of exposure to the theme in terms of the industries and companies that are connected," he said. Though thematics don't have to be sector specific, they can be unconstrained by sector and geography, he added. Global X's second ...

Evergreen funds prime for retail PE investors

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024
... Gavin Williams, senior vice president at Neuberger Berman, said they will receive the same "quality" of investment. "Even though the [retail] fund is smaller, it doesn't have any detrimental effect on the quality of the institutional-grade investment ...

Rest rebrands with new look

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024
The $85 billion fund has unveiled a new look in a bid to make the superannuation experience simple for its two million members. Rest's logo has been updated with a different typography, exclusively in the colour green. Rest chief member officer ...

Vale Greg Bright

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
The financial services industry and the journalists that cover it are mourning the loss of Greg Bright, a titan of the financial trade press. For more than four decades, Bright was instrumental in shaping Australia's financial services trade media ...

AustralianSuper takes monster hit on Pluralsight

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
AustralianSuper has written off its $1.1 billion investment in online education firm Pluralsight, following the company's restructuring. The superannuation giant invested in Pluralsight in 2021, as a co-underwriter with Vista Equity Partners, which ...

Iress earnings up 52% to $67m

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2024
... revenue in Superannuation. Superannuation revenue declined 7% which was said to reflect the exit of several clients in 2023. Though this decline was partially offset by an increase in consulting-based fee revenue which grew 81% in 1H24. Iress said this ...