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The super fund scouring the dark web to protect members

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
A compromised identity could result in financial harm, including the loss of superannuation savings, a particularly prominent risk given the volume of members' personal data available for sale. This super fund is fighting back with a novel approach. ...

The tax system is being weaponised to inflict abuse, ombudsman says

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
... women, have suffered financial abuse at the hands of an intimate partner, sometimes through the weaponisation of the tax system, with impacts that can be "devastating and long-lasting" to survivors and their families, according to a report by the Tax ...

Investors brace as US unleashes tariffs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
... while claiming to supercharge it," Green said. "It's a seismic day for global trade. Trump is blowing up the post-war system that made the US and the world more prosperous, and he's doing it with reckless confidence." Recent research from the ...

ASIC tiptoes around private markets intervention

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
... some element of corporate governance?'," he said. "From my perspective, ASIC's role [is] how can we help make the system work better? And to my mind, we can't really do that, and this really goes to the heart of the public-private markets ...

RainmakerLive rebrands to Rainmaker MarketPro

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
Rainmaker Information has rebranded the RainmakerLive terminal to Rainmaker MarketPro and introduced several key product updates. "Rainmaker MarketPro is the only local source of data and insights for wealth managers that is backed by global technology ...

Life insurers keep breaking their own rules: Report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
Breaches of the Life Insurance Code of Practice (the Code) increased for a fourth consecutive year, with life insurers reporting 14,670 instances of non-compliance, a 19% increase from the previous period. The Code, the industry's north star for good ...

Otivo launches AI-powered advice tool

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
... adviser and can provide real-time advice, based on the users' personal financial information that they have input into the system. After issuing, a Statement of Advice (SoA) will be created. Ask Otivo is powered by Otivo's advice engine, which it said ...

Fink takes private markets to next level

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
... tokenised assets won't run through those traditional channels, meaning we need a new digital identity verification system," he said, using India as an example whereby identifications are verified with smartphones. "The takeaway is clear. If we're ...

Not one trustee tracked end-to-end claims handling times: ASIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2025
A review of major superannuation trustees by ASIC found that not even one monitored or reported on the full process of death benefit claims handling. The review of superannuation trustees including, Australian Retirement Trust, Avanteos (Colonial First ...

AMP introduces geared retirement options

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2025
AMP's North has worked with Betashares to introduce Australia's "first targeted geared retirement series." Unveiled today, the Betashares Moderately Geared Managed Account Portfolios, now added to North, are designed to increase exposure to defensive ...