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Digitisation an immediate area of growth: Fund manager

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2023
... thing that's changed the most in terms of new developments has really been around AI. For example, Chat GPT was launched a few months ago, and that's been the fastest growing product in history in terms of user adoption," he said. Already, New ...

RBA steadies cash rate, flags more hikes

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023
... Zealand and global commodities Paul Bloxham believes the RBA is done with hiking the cash rate and likely pause for the next few quarters. "Our view has been that the economy would pass a turning point, into a downswing, around the turn of the year and ...

Curbing super tax breaks for the wealthy: Consultation opens

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2023
The government has opened consultation on its proposal to increase the concessional tax rate for superannuation balances over $3 million. Under the proposal, individuals with super balances over $3 million would see their tax rates on earnings double ...

Australians want super safeguard: ISA

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2023
According to new data, 80% of Australians agree that super is for providing financial security in retirement and support law changes that will deter early release. As the government's consultation on legislating super objectives closes, Industry ...

BT Super, Mercer merger completes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2023
... beginning." Mercer Super chief executive Tim Barber reinforced the commitment to growth, adding that Mercer Super is one of the few funds with global scale. Mercer Super is also currently in the process of merging with Lutheran Super. "The merger of ...

We need to be ready: APRA

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2023
... he said. Lonsdale explained as the speed of crises accelerates, regulators have less time to respond and therefore noted a few areas which APRA will target. "It may be that we need to look more closely at concentration risk in deposits and adjust requirements ...

Rest switches up recruitment focus

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2023
... weeks with the situation in the US and Europe, the environment can change quickly. An outcome that might have seemed likely a few weeks ago can suddenly be doubtful." He makes a good point. The question of whether central banks would divert monetary ...

Regulators prioritise emerging areas of risk

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
... Katrina Ellis, ASIC Commissioner Danielle Press and Australian Tax Office (ATO) deputy commissioner Emma Rosenzweig shared a few areas of focus. Rosenzweig said the ATO has just published its major statistics on lost and unclaimed super. "Since November ...

Still work to be done on group insurance: ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
Superannuation funds need to improve the life insurance they provide members, with ASIC finding trustees have not made sufficient effort to do so since it began targeted work in the area in 2019. Last year, ASIC reviewed the actions of 15 trustees in ...

Menopause: The silent economic crisis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... through," Dunlop says. This mentality of sucking it up is a huge contributor to the lack of data available on the subject as few women receive a formal diagnosis from their GP. But there is some cause for hope. At the end of 2022, the government announced ...