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ANZ Staff Super loses investment head

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... having served as a member-elected director for several years alongside extensive ANZ Bank experience across customer advocacy, risk and operations. She recently led the fund's administration transition from Mercer to MUFG, demonstrating operational ...

Equip Super, TelstraSuper terminate merger plans

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... later this year. It added that the fund remains in a healthy position, seeing positive net member growth, high member advocacy, and a growing retirement segment. As at December end, TelstraSuper had 97,420 member accounts, some 71,540 of which were active. ...

Advice bodies want efficiency, long-term solutions from Mulino

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... accessibility of advice for all Australians. The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) general manager for policy, advocacy and standards Phil Anderson is urging to push through a suite of issues that got held up by the federal election. "We ...

Industry bodies call for delay to Payday Super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
... is a significant reform that we support in principle, but we need to get the balance right," CA ANZ group executive, advocacy and international development Simon Grant said.

What Labor's second term means for regulators

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... report by the last sitting day of March 2025. The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) general manager of policy, advocacy and standards Phil Anderson said he expects that the Dixon Inquiry will still happen and that Labor will support the inquiry ...

Coalition's super on PPL plan 'deeply worrying'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... future financial security to meet daily living costs, which would exacerbate women's retirement poverty risk. The super advocacy group said time out of the workforce is a key reason women are currently approaching retirement with around a third less ...

ART promotes high-profile retirement specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
... professional and actuary has long represented ART as a global industry thought leader in retirement, contributing to advocacy and policy development by providing technical expertise and advice to peak bodies and government. Van Wyk landed at ART from ...

Government to 'crack down further' on financial abuse

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
... domestic and family violence can be stopped from receiving their victim's superannuation after death. Superannuation advocacy body's Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) and Super Members Council (SMC) welcomed the proposal. "For too ...

Cyberattacks on super funds expose 'critical vulnerability'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2025
... superannuation industry's handling of cybersecurity, describing the recent attacks as "shocking and unsettling." The advocacy group said the breaches came despite repeated warnings from regulators that the sector is lagging on cyber-resilience, fraud ...

FAAA expands policy team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
The peak body for financial advisers has hired a policy and advocacy manager. Financial Advice Association Australia has appointed David Barrett to the newly created role, effective 24 March 2025. Based in Sydney, Barrett reports to the general manager ...