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One in three Aussies face 10-year retirement savings gap: Fidelity

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2025
... highlighted the growing gap between rising life expectancy and financial preparedness leading to an urgent need to rethink how people prepare for longer lives. Fidelity International managing director, Australia Simon Glazier said that while the majority ...

MLC sets sights on top super funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... of this kind of data has not been done well in the superannuation industry in Australia. "To date, we simply just send people white papers when they turn 55 and they might be thinking about retiring. We actually have to take a step back and have a look ...

Kenya to establish sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... However, the country still faces structural issues around insufficient job creation and low wages, particularly for young people, the World Bank notes.

M&A makes rebound, creating higher-value deals: Deloitte

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2025
... technology and data integration (21%), the report highlighted. Other challenges cited by the financial services industry were people (14%), operations (7%), commercial (7%), and legal (7%). "Within financial services, people and culture ranked as the ...

Shield, First Guardian fallout calls for tougher scrutiny on research houses, licensee governance

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... essentially only a rubber stamp, with the potential that report is not read fully, or properly evaluated." Gosselin said many people believe the system is "flawed", but fund managers have no other options to obtain a research report for a fund. Many ...

FEATURE: Fund admin | Tight Ship

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... all funds - no matter how big or small - are meeting their obligations to members. "It's not up to us to talk about how people get on boards or executive positions, and it's not up to us to tell them how to organise themselves...Whether it's in-house ...

Feature: Retirement | Rewarding risk

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... longevity and emotional risks, or SMILE. "Yes, it's a cute acronym but we actually think it's possible for more people to be happy in retirement," says Hillier. "People often see their super as a tank with a tap installed at the top, and they ...

Feature: Group insurance | Cold comfort

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... the industry to ensure customers are treated fairly and assessed on their individual circumstances," Monument says. "If people believe disclosure will automatically result in exclusions or declined cover, they may be discouraged from being open about ...

Adviser banned after $11.3m loss

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... investments had lost 90% of their value. ASIC determined this was dishonest conduct according to the standards of ordinary people, highly unprofessional, and lacking in sound judgement and integrity. Additionally, the regulator said in or around 2023 ...

'We have entered a new economic era': CBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... still a lot of water to go under the bridge." Lastly, the world is in the early stages of a major demographic shift as its people age, and more countries deal with absolute population declines. "This gets less public attention, but the impacts will still ...