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Super a 'taxpayer subsidised inheritance scheme': Grattan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
Grattan Institute housing and economic security program director Brendan Coates has slammed the government's superannuation tax concessions, reinforcing his view that the super system is no longer being used to fund retirements. "The concessions available ...

SMC backs principles-based approach to corporate governance

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
... indicating stronger member trust and satisfaction," she said. SMC noted that the top 10 performing super funds over the decade to 30 June 2024 were all profit-to-member funds with representative governance models. It said over the past four years, super ...

US-Iran tensions send markets into panic mode

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
Global markets are preparing for potential fallout after the US conducted strikes with B-2 Stealth Bombers on three Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend and has since claimed the attacks "obliterated" Iran's nuclear capabilities. IG market analyst ...

Productivity woes endure in March quarter

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... people find thousands of extra hours of free time each year," she said. But with stagnating productivity over the past decade, "the rewards have been far less generous," with almost no improvement in output per hour worked since 2016. She said high average ...

ART overhaul sees senior portfolio managers exit

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... strategies. His career includes eight years at QSuper Group, where he had a similar role. Before that, he spent over a decade as a director at QIC, where he successfully steered global fixed interest portfolios for 12 years. The two exits follows last ...

‍Padua recruits tech professional

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
Padua Solutions has appointed Dimitri Diamantes to the newly created role of senior technical services manager, overseeing the advice fintech's software, services, research and data divisions. Diamantes has almost two decades of experience in financial ...

JANA executive jumps to Channel

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
Channel Capital has welcomed a veteran asset consultant to the group as head of investment oversight. The appointment of JANA executive Matthew Griffith underlines Channel Capital's move to enhance its investment and portfolio governance platform. ...

Chalmers champions productivity, urges tax reform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... concept," is a problem that's been with Australia not for a couple of years, but for a couple of decades. He noted that in the decade leading up to the pandemic, productivity growth was just half the rate seen two decades earlier, and that the 2022 election ...

Select stocks in charge of their own destiny: Aoris

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
In an uncertain environment, Aoris Investment Management is attempting to steer clear of volatility by avoiding businesses that exhibit significant ties to what it calls the 'no-go zone'. Aoris aims to have up to 15 investments in its portfolio at any ...

Australian wealth increases despite variable global growth: UBS

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... wealth growing by almost 4% per Australian adult in 2024 over the year before, and over 15% since the beginning of the decade, UBS found. "Median wealth has fared even better, rising by almost 11% year-on-year in 2024 and by over 19% since 2020," UBS ...