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SS&C extends super fund partnership

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2025
... for employees of the Western Australian Department of Fire and Emergency Services, the United Professional Firefighters Union of Western Australia and the Western Australian Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services Association. It has close to $1 billion in ...

Foreign investment in Australia booms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
... main contributor of investment into Australia, contributing $1.35 trillion of investment. This was followed by the European Union with $869 billion of investments and the United Kingdom with $839 billion. Other major investors into Australia were Japan ...

Coalition's super on PPL plan 'deeply worrying'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
The Coalition has confirmed that it plans to make paying superannuation on Commonwealth Paid Parental Leav e (PPL) optional for working mothers, as a $158 million budget saving measure. The Coalition's election costings revealed several cost-saving ...

Super moves: Aware Super, Future Fund, Cbus

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... Super has welcomed Mark Fagan to the board of directors. Currently, Fagan is operating chief at The Australian Workers' Union. The super fund noted: "Mark brings extensive skills to the board, including in regulatory and legislative compliance, financial ...

TAL takes 15% stake in Challenger

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2025
... 20.1% to 9.9% in September 2024, subsequently making MS&AD the ASX-listed firm's largest shareholder until today. The union between MS&AD and Challenger began with subsidiary MS Primary in 2016. Challenger Life initially partnered with MS Primary ...

Dutton doubles down on 'super for housing' policy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025
Opposition leader Peter Dutton put his party's policies on the table during his Budget reply speech, in which he campaigned on energy price reductions, a tougher stance on immigration and increased spending for healthcare and education. While Treasurer ...

AMP staff surveillance slammed by FSU

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
The Finance Sector Union (FSU) has slammed a "draconian" employment contract issued to AMP staff. Staff have been given one week to sign the new employment contracts that enables AMP to carry out continuous video surveillance of them no matter where ...

Study finds 5000 European ESG funds investing in fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... example, funds with the 'ESG' or 'SRI' in their name will be required to implement exclusion screens aligned to the European Union's Paris-aligned Benchmark exclusions. However, the research found that two-thirds of the almost 14,300 Article 8 and Article ...

Tariffs not the only inflationary risk: Colchester

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
... increases due to higher spending, he said. He also noted tariffs are not exclusively enforced by the US, as the European Union has also placed tariffs on electric vehicles. Simpson also sees the distinct difference in inflation between goods and services ...

Super, insurance, and bank boards' 'poor practices' targeted by APRA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
... independent review of Cbus, which found scant evidence of its relationship with the Construction, Forestry, and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) being in the best financial interests of members, while also findings it processes for determining the propriety ...