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Performance the best member retention tool: Mine Super

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024
... coming through the last 10 years, and with CPS 230 the regulators are now landing the plane in relation to the training standards around how we manage these pension funds," Nair said. Historically, a fund only needs to demonstrate that a process is functional ...

ASIC narrows in on private market investments

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2024
... includes ensuring that they are acting in the best financial interests of members, that they adhere to all laws and standards of market conduct and integrity, that their investments - whether held directly or through fund managers - are valued appropriately ...

Work-related training boosts pay and productivity: CEDA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2024
... reverse declining literacy and numeracy skills among school students, ensuring disadvantaged children can meet the minimum standards necessary to enable learning in later life. "Done well, workplace training offers significant benefits for relatively ...

Lack of action on menopause driving gender inequity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024
... ensure greater support, the government is being pushed to consider adding such entitlements to the National Employment Standards and modern awards, and to weigh introducing flexible working arrangements for women via the Fair Work Act. Of those surveyed ...

ASIC escalates super fund enforcement in 2025

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2024
... superannuation funds by adding new enforcement priorities and flagging that it will hold directors on trustee boards to the same standards as those in big companies. While the corporate regulator heightened its focused on the superannuation sector throughout ...

Super lobbies call for death benefit reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024
... superannuation fund. "Our members from across the superannuation ecosystem recognise consumer expectations of service standards have not always been met," Delahunty said. SMC chief executive Misha Schubert mirrored Delahunty's remarks, acknowledging ...

UK to follow Australia's lead in creating megafunds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024
... authorities, are collectively on track to manage $978 billion (£500bn) by 2030. "These megafunds will need to meet rigorous standards to ensure they deliver for savers, such as needing to be authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority. Governance ...

LGT Crestone takes over remainder of Commonwealth Bank's advice business

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024
... exceptional service, ensuring they have access to world-class expertise and tailored solutions to meet the very highest standards in private wealth management." LGT chair H.S.H prince Max von und zu Liechtenstein said the firm's expertise in family advisory ...

Former Frontier alts head joins Evergreen

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2024
... from Erasmus University Rotterdam and as a CFA Charterholder, Michiel's expertise will further improve the high standards of our investment consulting services," Evergreen Consultants posted on LinkedIn. "Welcome aboard, Michiel - we're looking ...

FAAA takes aim at finfluencers with new campaign

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2024
... manage the complexities of the financial world." The campaign follows FAAA's partnership with the Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB) India to improve adviser shortages across the two nations. The initiative aims to develop courses for professionals ...