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Fixing retirement system an election priority: Grattan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025
The Grattan Institute is once again calling for the simplification of Australia's retirement income system, saying it should be a policy priority for whoever wins this year's federal election. Releasing its Orange Book 2025: Policy priorities for the ...

Macquarie heavyweights headline 2025 Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2025
... wrote the book The Twilight Before the Storm, which discusses how capitalism is moving to a yet-to-be-defined alternative system. This underpins a key thematic of the summit. "The purpose of the summit is to get money to move to companies and funds and ...

Government releases draft payday super law

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2025
... estimates $5.2 billion worth of super went unpaid in 2021-22. "This change will strengthen Australia's superannuation system and help deliver a more dignified retirement to more Australian workers, in line with the objective of super," he said. The ...

Mercer adds to wealth team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
Mercer continues to bump up its wealth distribution team by adding two new staffers. Matthew Young and Staten Janes have both been hired as senior sales leaders, based in Sydney. Young joined FIIG Securities, where he was head of intermediary distribution ...

Iress hires wealth tech experts

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
Iress, the financial services software and data firm, has made two hires to its Asia Pacific wealth team. Callum Masson and Martin Johnson have been appointed executive general manager of product and technology and general manager of technology respectively. ...

Super funds to 'look more like insurers'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... but actually they already look a lot more like alternatives managers and asset managers. So, there is a need for a single system that pretty much does all of that, the 'holy grail' of a single platform that can represent every asset class and can look ...

Australia must focus on 'friend-shoring': UNSW

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... need to focus on negotiating a new global order, as one of the key themes. "As the world moves away from a rules-based system (the current political, legal and economic framework governing international relations), Australia must leverage its comparative ...

ASIC, ASFA spar over super fund trustees 'not knowing' their business

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... Delahunty, however, said the criticism from Longo was "unfounded and unfair." "Australia's phenomenally successful super system is the envy of the world, and with good reason. The typical balanced superannuation fund returned 10.5% to members last ...

ASIC slaps FIIG Securities with lawsuit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
FIIG Securities will face court over allegations of longstanding cybersecurity failures which saw the private data of more than 18,000 clients stolen and released on the dark web. According to ASIC, FIIG failed to have adequate cyber risk management ...

Super doesn't have to be 'boring', but innovation is key

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2025
Leaders at Aware Super, NGS Super, Rest and AMP have all pointed to slow moving systems as standing in the way of innovation while speaking at the AM Tech Day conference in Sydney. AMP group executive, platforms Edwina Maloney said traditional thinking ...