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Selfwealth to proceed with Svava proposal

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... After much back and forth between bidders, Selfwealth has forged ahead with a deal with the highest bidder. Despite a recent call for its shareholders to consider Bell Financial Group's (BFG) previous offer, Selfwealth has ultimately decided to proceed ...

Treasury drafts superannuation retirement income principles

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
... membership through a mix of publicly available data, fund-held data, and other interactions, including via digital channels and call centres. Cohorts should be based on factors relevant to members financial outcomes in retirement, including Age Pension ...

Perpetual calls off KKR deal

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
Perpetual has ended KKR's courtship of its wealth management and corporate trust operations, blaming the massive tax bill the transaction would incur, saying there was no way of getting around it. Since tabulating the tax implications last December ...

ASIC proposes further breach reporting relief

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2025
ASIC is proposing additional relief for financial services businesses, which would scrap the need to report minor or technical breaches that don't result in a financial loss. The relief is intended to ease the compliance load on financial services ...

AustralianSuper warns outdated tax laws will hurt returns

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2025
AustralianSuper has called for a modernised tax system, warning that without reform super funds will at the very least be bogged down by complexity and compliance costs - and likely left at a competitive disadvantage that could drag on returns. In its ...

Oaktree offers Star $650m lifeline

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
... worth of shares. Additionally, in September last year portfolio managers for the WAM Leaders Fund admitted they "got the call wrong" when they took a 4% stake in Star back in 2023.

Economist calls for 35bps rate cut

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is expected to deliver its first interest rate cut since November 2020 when the board meets tomorrow. However, while most of the market is expecting a regular 0.25% cut, Betashares chief economist David Bassanese ...

Senate calls to overhaul super fund boards

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
... to engage a broad range of superannuation stakeholders or governance experts. "Disappointingly, the chair did not open or call for submissions seeking views on the governance and operations of superannuation funds to inform this interim report and the ...

Shift needed in retirement income advice: Allianz Retire+

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
... philosophy and an insurance philosophy, a retirement philosophy should "link back to the types of strategies and products you will call on, so you aren't reinventing the wheel for every new client." To reiterate the importance of shifting focus to ...

Industry fund insurance bungle adds fuel to mounting outrage

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
... the precipice of dying, attention to detail is crucial, every day is of great importance." Glezer explained that he had to call TAL, the underwriters, because he'd lost all trust in the people he was dealing with at Rest. Although they said the income ...