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NZ Super Fund shines bright with standout return

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2024
New Zealand's sovereign wealth fund, NZ Super Fund, posted a herculean return of 14.94% this past financial year, trouncing its peers, according to data provider Global SWF. The fund outperformed its Treasury Bills benchmark - a measure based on the ...

More to do in the fight against inflation: Chalmers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2024
... additional medicines being made available, bringing the total to almost 300. "We're indexing payments for people on Jobseeker, the age pension, disability support pension, carer payment and parenting payment, as well as Commonwealth Rent Assistance," ...

Super funds fail to meet millennial members' expectations: ASIC roundtable

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024
Super funds are falling short of millennial members' expectations, according to financial experts at an ASIC roundtable. The roundtable panellists, which included financial adviser Andrew Dunbar, She's on the Money podcast host Victoria Devine ...

Too much being asked of super trustees: Levy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2024
... reduced the actual return to members?" Levy said. "We need the super system to be effective so that we're not all reliant on the Age Pension."

CLSA penalised over data mistakes

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2024
CLSA Australia paid a penalty of $144,300 in relation of an infringement notice for failing to provide correct regulatory data to the relevant market operator. The infringement noticed, given by Markets Disciplinary Panel (MDP), considered that from ...

Insignia Financial hires expert to boost brand exposure

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024
Insignia Financial appointed Wylie Fowler as its general manager of brand strategy, as it looks to revitalise the MLC brand. Insignia said Fowler will be accountable for the development of brand strategies for all its brands, with the focus on enhancing ...

Former adviser cops 12 years' imprisonment

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
... deputy chair Sarah Court said Jayaweera's actions betrayed the trust of his clients with some clients at or near retirement age and caused them significant financial harm. "This sentence demonstrates that such behaviour will not be tolerated," she ...

ISPT, IFM Investors merger advances

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
The merger of IFM Investors and ISPT has moved forward as the latter's shareholders agree on the conditions of the deal. ISPT's board has notified IFM Investors that it "has elected to support a binding offer made to ISPT and their unit holders." ...

Heightened costs push young Aussies to plan ahead: HESTA

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
... Australians on what the crisis had caused them to do over the past 12 months. It stated that 41% of the total respondents across all age groups have taken more action on the retirement planning front. Specifically, 44% of those aged 40-54 years and 29% ...

Short-termism damaging Australian economy: CEDA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
Australia must move beyond pervasive short-termism and lift its policy ambitions if the nation is to reach its economic potential, according to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). "Our record of almost three decades of economic ...