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Decade-long ban for UGC director upheld

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
... speculative schemes tied to Hewish. "[UGC] used a client onboarding process that lured people into investing their retirement savings in UGC-related products by having calls made to prospective clients using details including those obtained from a third-party ...

Superannuation fraudster sentenced to prison

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2025
... and February 2017, Steele persuaded 14 investors to withdraw more than $1.3 million from their superannuation and other savings to lend to EA Invest and Marketing Machine International for the Biggera Waters development. Steele was responsible for raising ...

Payday super delays will cost workers: ASFA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
... delay means more Australians missing out on better retirement security. Hundreds of millions of dollars in retirement savings are potentially at stake, and Aussie workers simply can't afford for this legislation to be kicked down the road," Delahunty ...

Super funds risk 'falling behind': MUFG Retirement Solutions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2025
... if digital security or user experience falls short. The research, detailed in the Protecting Australia's Retirement Savings in a Digital World whitepaper, called for an industry-wide uplift in digital identity and fraud protection capabilities. As ...

Cbus appoints member director

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2025
... Skills Council and an SA Skills Commission member. Cbus has over 925,000 members and manages $105 billion of superannuation savings as of June 30 this year.

Australian investment in venture capital lags: SMC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... overseas to commercialise. Increasing Australia's investment in private equity from the current level of 6% to 10% of super savings could see $50 billion flow to startups and other innovative private companies and boost returns. SMC chief executive Misha ...

HESTA calls for reforms to help women in retirement

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... Leave, which HESTA said helped address the fact that Australian mums have missed out on well over $3 billion in super savings at retirement. While welcoming the early impact of the reforms, Blakey said there were more opportunities to make Australia's ...

Special feature: Shaping private markets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... liquidity and transparency-especially during market volatility. The subtext is clear: when nearly $1.2 trillion of retirement savings sits in assets that don't trade daily, don't settle, and don't behave like anything on the ASX, someone ...

Brighter Super awards $50m mandate

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025
A new $50 million mandate will see Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) invest Brighter Super members' retirement savings back into the state's economy through high-growth, innovative businesses. The mandate will invest in businesses delivering strong ...

Mercer Super, Virgin Money Super members caught in Australia Post burglaries

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
... APRA's latest superannuation figures for March. Its SmartPath product has about 450,300 members and $39.5 billion in savings. Mercer Super told members that because the breach occurred at Melbourne GPO on Bourke Street, it was "unaware of the issue ...