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Engage Financial launches practice management firm

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024
Engage Financial Solutions has launched Engage Practice Management - a partner firm dedicated to providing professional services firms with business solutions. Engage Practice Management will provide support through leadership coaching in EOS Implementation ...

Australian Retirement Trust appoints new chief risk officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
Australian Retirement Trust (ART) has appointed a new chief risk officer that's set to start in March 2025. The new chief risk officer, Darryl Burke, was previously with Colonial First State in the same role. Burke will lead ART's risk and compliance ...

World on the brink: Frontier Advisors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
The global economy stares down "unprecedented challenges" in 2025, according to Frontier Advisors' annual secular outlook, which forecasts rising risks from unsustainable debt, geopolitical rifts, and climate inaction. The report said after spiking ...

Super framework, SMSFs conducive to financial abuse: Inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
... make it too easy for perpetrators of domestic violence to access victims' retirement savings, while the current framework for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) enables financial abuse to flourish, a parliamentary inquiry found. The Parliamentary Joint ...

Former abrdn MD takes on chief executive role

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
... the HM1 team have been instrumental to its success." "He helped establish the operational infrastructure and reporting framework that we use today and have provided invaluable guidance and leadership to the team and board over this six-year period. Consistent ...

Treasury gives Tranche 2 reform package preview

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
... advice," she said. "The future for Australians' retirement savings is brighter with a more inclusive and modernised advice framework and we look forward to seeing the legislation progress in the New Year."

Cbus lacks stringent director, expenditure policies: Deloitte

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
... and approving BFID expenditure." Deloitte said there is currently "a misalignment in documentation between the BFID Framework and the Partnership Agreements Policy", noting that neither references the other, saying this puts the onus on employees to ...

Half of advice, super complaints result in no remedy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
... released its first publication of industry-wide data reported under the internal dispute resolution (IDR) data reporting framework, flagging concerns firms are not reporting data accurately. Under the IDR framework, most licensed financial firms are ...

Bullock hints at no rate cut in 2025

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Michele Bullock has reaffirmed the central bank's stance that interest rates are likely to stay higher for longer as sticky inflation persists. Speaking at a Centre of Economic Development (CEDA) dinner ...

Swan hits back at Bragg: 'That's wrong of you'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024
Cbus chair Wayne Swan faced the Senate Economics Committee today to answer questions around the super fund's claim handling delays, governance and payments made to the CFMEU. Cbus is facing legal action from the Australian Securities and Investments ...