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Jones clarifies scope of new class of adviser

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025
Minister for financial services Stephen Jones has ruled out talk that the new class of adviser could provide holistic personal retirement advice and acknowledged the need to reform the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR) during a post-budget briefing ...

Insurance in super remains a mystery to millions of Australians

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025
... "come clean" about how they design default insurance products and how they try to ensure that their default insurance is right for their increasingly large and diverse memberships. This matters, SCA said, because from a member's perspective, insurance ...

Dutton doubles down on 'super for housing' policy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025
... executive Chris Freeland said the Coalition's pledge to make the instant asset write-off threshold permanent at $30,000 is the right call for small business. "The instant asset write-off provides a vital opportunity for small businesses to invest and ...

ASIC recommends standards for virtual AGMs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has provided Treasury with a report after conducting an inquiry into companies holding virtual AGMs. As part of the report, the regulator made five recommendations, including that ASIC and ...

AustralianSuper bins WiseTech stake

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
... are most likely to create value over the years to come. "We needed to see a sensible transition plan that got the balance right between governance and managing the founder's role over time in order to continue to remain a shareholder. We have sold ...

Australia can lead energy transition, climate investing: Panel

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
... she said. To tackle this, Kimmorley said investment and technology solutions are a must. If Australia gets these aspects right, it can then export the solutions to other coal-dependent countries. Grok Ventures has been investing in climate technology ...

Impact investors need instos, governments to scale: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
... for institutional capital to be deployed to impact investing. "We must have it. It's not going at the scale required right now," she told the Institutional investors: Investing in an era of turbulence panel. One of the reasons, Halpern said, is when ...

AZ NGA practices merge on road to 'super firm'

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
... see some improvements, but we've had to work very hard and spend some money upfront, for example on getting our technology right, to bank ongoing savings," Cook said. "It takes some time for the benefits of M&A to flow through, but they are starting ...

DBFO reforms package 'pretty disappointing': FAAA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... staple a member to their super fund for life, with no trigger for them to consider whether their current fund is still the right one for them in retirement, and no support for their retirement needs beyond an allocated pension or annuity - "this is not ...

CoreLogic rebrands to Cotality

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... balancing "logic and data" with "humanity and emotion." Cotality International chief executive Lisa Claes said the time is right to launch a refreshed brand that "captures our evolution," pointing to a raft of acquisitions, product spend, and industry ...