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Allow couples tax-free super splitting: Hume

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
A bill that would allow couples to split their collective superannuation balances evenly between them to improve the gender super gap was tabled in Parliament yesterday. The Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Tackling the Gender Super Gap) Bill 2025 ...

ASIC, APRA outline regulatory reform opportunities

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) have outlined opportunities for regulatory reform in letters sent to Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher. APRA ...

FEATURE: Hyped up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
Financial services firms stand at a pivotal juncture. Those in one camp, with their heads buried in the sand, can no longer ignore the fact that artificial intelligence (AI), particularly its sidekick generative AI (GenAI), is everywhere. The other ...

RBA 'alert' to impact of tech on the economy: Bullock

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Michele Bullock has said the future of central banking will be shaped by how the RBA chooses to engage with new technologies in a meaningful way, while speaking at an event in Perth. "At the RBA, we are actively ...

Schroder urges 'open dialogue' with government

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
AustralianSuper chief executive Paul Schroder has warned that while superannuation funds may have the capital to invest in future infrastructure projects, the government should bear the risks. Speaking at the National Press Club, Schroder said the potential ...

Three retirement products achieve double-digit returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
The retirement products of two industry superannuation funds and a corporate plan achieved double-digit returns of 10% p.a. or more over the last three years, a new analysis from Rainmaker Information shows. UniSuper's Pension Balanced option and ANZ ...

Legalsuper updates investment, insurance fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
Legalsuper has introduced several changes to its investment options' objectives and fees, as well as some insurance costs. Effective September 1, the Conservative option will change its investment objective from outperforming an average annual return ...

IML debuts income-focused ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
IML has launched an actively managed income-focused ETF on the ASX, spun off from its Equity Income Fund. The Investors Mutual Equity Income Fund Complex ETF (EQIN) was admitted on the exchange yesterday. EQIN aims to provide a dividend yield after ...

Praemium partners to offer more global options

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
Praemium has integrated Clearstream's Vestima into its Spectrum platform, offering global fund access and operational efficiency for financial advisers. Vestima supports over 245,000 funds across 55 markets with nearly €4 trillion ($7tn) in assets ...

AMP, Insignia, Bendigo products fail super performance test

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
AMP, Insignia Financial and Bendigo SmartStart are the only superannuation fund providers whose platform trustee-directed products (TDP) failed APRA's latest performance test. Only seven out of the 563 products that APRA tested failed in its latest ...