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APRA heightens expectations around trustees' spending

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2024
APRA reissued guidance around strategic planning and member outcomes, placing a clearer focus on superannuation members' interests when it comes to fund expenditure. The regulator updated Prudential Standard SPS 515 Strategic Planning and Member Outcomes ...

Rest's MySuper option returns 8.67% in FY24

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2024
Rest's core strategy default MySuper investment option, where most of its two million members are invested, delivered a one-year return of 8.67% over the last financial year. This exceeds its long-term average annual return of 8.29% since July 1988. ...

Retirement Income Covenant still weak: APRA, ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
Superannuation funds continue to grapple with their retirement income strategy obligations, citing financial advice regulation uncertainty, costs, and the lack of member engagement as major barriers. This is according to joint oversight by ASIC and ...

AustralianSuper unleashes raft of investment and fee changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
AustralianSuper has unveiled a raft of changes to its investment exposures and fees which came into effect July 1. Across its MySuper, Choice and TTR Income products, the super fund has removed its exposure to listed infrastructure and listed property. ...

WTW names new head for Australia and New Zealand

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
WTW has appointed James Baum, formerly the global head of wholesale and specialty broking at Aon, as head of Australia and New Zealand, and head of corporate risk and broking, effective July 15. Baum held many leadership roles over his 18-year tenure ...

GigSuper goes into liquidation

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
GigSuper, the superannuation fund designed for the self-employed, has entered voluntary liquidation. GigSuper launched in 2017 in the hope of helping those working in the gig economy save better for retirement. It partnered with the likes of Deliveroo ...

ASIC calls out sloppy adviser data

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
ASIC is reprimanding AFS licensees (AFSL) for submitting inaccurate information about their financial advisers and will ramp up its enforcement from August. AFSLs are making numerous errors when it comes to providing data on the Financial Advisers Register ...

Pacific Current names acting chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
Pacific Current named a former Challenger executive to lead the multi-boutique in an interim capacity. Michael Clarke, who spent more than 10 years at Challenger, takes the top job at Pacific Current following the resignation of managing director, chief ...

FSC releases new standard on scam mitigation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
The Financial Services Council (FSC) and its superannuation funds members have adopted a new standard to protect consumers from financial harm. The FSC's Standard demonstrates its members' commitment to protecting customers from scams and fraud by setting ...

New recruits top advice industry priority: FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2024
The industry is urgently prioritising the recruitment of new advisers as those who remain bear the brunt of paying heftier levies that aggravate the costs of running a business and puts financial advice further out of reach for Australians. The latest ...