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Aware Super launches new features for advisers

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
... while clients can authorise transactions through the Aware Super app. Meanwhile, registered advisers can initiate a nomination request via the portal, which clients can approve online, eliminating the need for paperwork. Additionally, advisers can now ...

FS Power50 shortlist revealed, voting opens

STAFF WRITER  |  SATURDAY, 30 AUG 2025
Voting for Australia's most influential financial advisers in the 2025 Financial Standard Power50 is now open. The shortlist of 120 financial advisers who have progressed to the voting stage after receiving more than 200 nominations has been revealed. ...

Super funds should prompt members on death benefits: SCA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2025
... Super Consumers Australia (SCA) has called on superannuation funds to do more to prompt members to complete a binding nomination and clearly communicate why it is important they have one. This comes as SCA released new research showing that 36% of Australians ...

Super moves: PE exec quits Future Fund for ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... Investors, Industry Innovation and Science Australia, and the Powerhouse museum group. Scott also serves on the Director Nomination Committee of IFM Investors. A former president of the Australian Local Government Association, Scott spent more than a ...

Nominations open for 2025 Power50

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
... in FS Advice - The Australian Journal of Financial Planning. To nominate a worthy financial adviser, please submit a nomination form here. Nominations are open until July 27.

ASIC tells super: 'You have everything you need to not fail'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2025
ASIC commissioner Simone Constant has told Financial Standard the regulator has super funds in its sights for more than just claims handling delays. "The main focus is on member services more generally, this is a multi-year phased project" Constant ...

Challenger adds to board director lineup

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
... Group People and Remuneration Committee and a member of the Group Risk, Group Audit, Independent and Related Party, and Nomination Committees. West thanked Stephenson for her contribution. "On behalf of the board and our shareholders, I would like to ...

Rest details internal program to reform death benefit processes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... members are less likely to access financial advice or engage in estate planning, and just 4% have a binding death benefit nomination in place. "This can add time and complexity to our death benefit claims to understand who should receive a benefit after ...

Nominate now for the 2025 MAX Awards

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
Nominations are now open for the annual Financial Standard MAX (Marketing, Advertising and Sales Excellence) Awards. Now running for more than three decades, the MAX Awards recognises industry excellence in the fields of marketing, advertising and sales ...

AustralianSuper sued over death benefit delays

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2025
... period that were still open as at 22 January 2025. In 941 instances, the member held a valid binding death benefit nomination (BDBN) at the time of their death. The fund also failed to pay benefits as soon as practicable following a members' death ...