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Australian Retirement Trust works to resolve ongoing outages

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2024
... follow those of UniSuper earlier this year, which experienced an outage for close to a fortnight on the back of its private Google cloud being inadvertently deleted. In August, APRA chair John Lonsdale flagged the regulator is stepping up its oversight ...

New technology chief joins GROW Inc.

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
GROW Inc. has appointed a chief technology officer, recruiting a former Canva and Google executive. Wendy Glasgow was named in the role, joining the growing administrator last month. She will leverage her global experience in technology and data to ...

More Aussies anticipate renting in retirement: Vanguard

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024
... retirement. However, the most popular source of retirement information and guidance remains free online sources, such as Google, used by 42% of respondents. "This is very concerning because we know quality financial advice can make a real difference ...

APRA warns entities on adequacy of backup systems

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024
... material information security control weakness. This warning from APRA follows the recent UniSuper outage, the result of Google Cloud inadvertently deleting the super fund's private cloud. While the super fund had backups in place with another provider ...

UniSuper restores online services, app

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
... first went down close to two weeks ago, with it later confirmed the fund's private cloud was accidentally deleted by Google Cloud. Late last week, APRA confirmed it was monitoring the outage. ASIC also stated that member services failures "are an ...

The top investment funds over the past year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
... invests in companies that are considered "next generation" technology companies. Its biggest holdings are in Alphabet (Google), Apple, and Amazon. Examining sector-specific performance over a three-year period, the Acadian Global Equity Long Short Fund ...

APRA 'continuing to monitor' UniSuper outage

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024
... once services are online, they will be stable," UniSuper chief executive Peter Chun said. In a joint statement, Chun and Google Cloud chief executive Thomas Kurian said Google Cloud has now confirmed the outage is the result of "an unprecedented sequence ...

UniSuper outage continues, no cause identified

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024
... joiners via its website. It was confirmed last Friday that the outage is the result of an issue with third-party provider Google Cloud, and the fund had call centre staff work over the weekend to ensure it could still process member requests and answer ...

UniSuper battles major system outage

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2024
... and is not the result of a breach. In a statement to Financial Standard, UniSuper confirmed the third-party provider is Google Cloud. "Google Cloud has confirmed that the disruption is an isolated incident, not the result of a malicious act or cyber-attack ...

Ireland to create new sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2023
... year, Ireland raised close to €23 billion in corporation tax - up almost 200% in five years, largely paid by the likes of Google and Meta. "This is not a Rainy Day Fund, because it is for costs that we know are coming our way in the years ahead. This ...