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Allow couples tax-free super splitting: Hume

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... Legislation Amendment (Tackling the Gender Super Gap) Bill 2025 was tabled by Senator Jane Hume, who said it "goes to the heart of fairness, equity and recognition of the sacrifices made within Australian families." Under the bill, spouses would be able ...

FEATURE: Hyped up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... earnest," he said in a recent report studying the existential issues affecting global asset managers. Rajan writes that at the heart of these technologies are conversational machine-learning algorithms. This includes "ultra-sophisticated neural networks" ...

ASIC turns spotlight on direct life sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2025
... that sales practices are designed with customers' needs in mind. "Life companies need to place the customer at the very heart of their product and service proposition, including by using customer feedback and complaints data to respond to pain po ...

Commonwealth Private, JPMAM launch Private Wealth Advantage

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2025
... Australia and New Zealand Andrew Creber commented: "As a leader in active management, with fiduciary responsibility at the heart of what we do, entering into a strategic alliance with a leader in private wealth is a natural fit. Our organisations share ...

Special feature: Shaping private markets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... Street country head, Australia Tim Helyar says. "Do funds really have full transparency into what they're buying?" At the heart of the regulatory concern lies a fundamental problem: unlike ASX-listed shares, which reprice by the second, private assets ...

Aware Super completes $1bn of acquisitions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2025
Aware Super has completed the acquisition of three super-prime office buildings in central London through its strategic partnership with Delancey Real Estate in the DARE platform, for a combined value of around $1.03 billion (£500m ). Aware Super said ...

AMP appoints sales lead for North

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... platforms in the market, and I'm excited to be returning to AMP at such a pivotal time," he said. "Advisers are at the heart of what we do, and I'm looking forward to working closely with our distribution partners to help them grow, deliver great ...

Pension leaders urge US 401(k) plans to embrace private markets

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... systems are undergoing a profound transformation, as funded DC savings become the dominant model of retirement finance. At the heart of this transformation is the rising importance of private market investments as both a source of returns and vehicle ...

Large penalties against super funds are appropriate: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... members, and the responsibilities to all of the members, and of course, to get into that discussion almost puts to the side the heart of the issue, which is the fund's failings to meet responsibilities, commitments, obligations to these members."

COVID 'masked' issues at core of productivity problem: PC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... New research from the PC investigated the causes of the bubble and found that it "only served to mask the issues" at the heart of Australia's ongoing productivity problem. "The COVID-19 pandemic was a rollercoaster for productivity, but we are now back ...