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Workplace expert joins Aware Super in new role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... Breckon Jones to the newly created role of head of growth, talent, and reward. Jones joins the $190 billion superannuation fund from iCare NSW, which manages the insurance and care services to the people, businesses and communities of New South Wales ...

BlackRock's Chantal Giles expands role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... BlackRock's technology platform Aladdin, operations and institutional sales, where she looked after many of its superannuation fund relationships. Before joining BlackRock, she was employed with Financial Wisdom as a financial planner, assisting ...

Australian Ethical loses super chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... back to the future. Piper joined Australian Ethical in late 2022 following its merger with the faith-based superannuation fund. Before Christian Super and Australian Ethical, Piper served as chief operating officer at World Vision Australia and spent ...

Victorian SMSF auditor fails to overturn disqualification

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
A Victorian-based self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) auditor will remain disqualified after he failed to overturn ASIC's initial verdict. ASIC originally disqualified Nazrul Islam, of Clayton South in Victoria, from being an approved SMSF auditor ...

Financial services minister Stephen Jones to retire from politics

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
Labor frontbencher, assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones is retiring from politics and will not contest the upcoming federal election. Jones spent 15 years as the member for Whitlam - covering Illawarra and the Southern ...

ASIC calls out super trustees over 'weak' anti-scam practices

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... observed "weak trustee practices" relating to scams and fraud. "Over the coming decade, an increasing number of superannuation fund members will reach preservation age. While all members are vulnerable to scams and fraud, members who have reached preservation ...

Bumpy roads ahead for traditional active managers

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
Traditional active managers should expect a rougher path ahead as they face growing challenges from industry superannuation funds, as well as the continued strong flows into exchange-traded funds (ETF), a new report found. According to Morningstar's ...

Minimum service standards for super funds welcomed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones announced new mandatory minimum service standards for all large APRA-regulated superannuation funds. Chalmers said the reforms will improve member outcomes and how funds engage with their ...

Super failures, greenwashing: ASIC's key issues in 2025

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has identified what it believes to be the most significant current, ongoing and emerging issues within its regulatory remit for 2025. "Increased market volatility, geopolitical changes, the ...

Tyndall bolsters small cap team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
​Small cap specialist Josh Phillips has quit Aware Super to join Tyndall Asset Management's equity investment teams as a co-portfolio manager. Phillips will work alongside James Nguyen to help drive the performance of Tyndall AM's small companies' ...