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GESB renews administration mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
... Solutions. MUFG Retirement Solutions, formerly Link Group, has held the mandate since July 2014 when the Western Australian government first outsourced the management of its super admin services. The new agreement was effective December 1. GESB chief ...

ANZ suspected of more mistakes amid bond saga

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2024
... update on its investigation into ANZ's role as joint lead manager and risk manager of the issuance of 10-year Australian government Treasury Bonds last year. The investigation, commenced April last year, is currently ongoing. Appearing before the Parliamentary ...

ETF winners and losers in September

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2024
... saw mixed results, as investors sold out of short duration floating rate not strategies to longer maturity Australian government bond strategies or the broader benchmark. Vanguard research, released today, also highlighted that the appetite for international ...

GESB adopts Protecting Your Super reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024
... part of a broader suite of changes it's looking to implement to ensure sustainability. This month, the West Australian government passed amendments to State Superannuation Regulations 2001 to align the fund with the broader superannuation industry and ...

Nudging pre-retirees has 'little effect'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
The Australian government has recommended super funds use 'nudging' to help encourage members to engage more with their retirement savings, however new research from Yale University in the US has found the practice doesn't work as well as initially ...

HAFF receives first round commitments

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
Housing Australia and the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA) have announced commitments to the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) under the first funding round. Housing Australia has selected an initial pipeline of 185 projects to potentially ...

Funds SA exec jumps ship

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024
... relationships with peer sovereign wealth funds. Before joining the specialist asset manager for the South Australian Government, Keenan held senior positions at ANZ, JBWere, Deloitte, and National Australia Bank.

New bill seeks to block investments involving Cbus

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2024
... recipient of HAFF project funding. "This new proposal is akin to saying a super fund should not be able to buy Australian government bonds." He added that like many other investors, Cbus invests in meeting the challenge of housing in Australia where ...

Government urged to overhaul gift tax system

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2024
The Australian government has tabled the final report of the Productivity Commission's (PC) inquiry into philanthropy in Australia: Future foundations for giving. The report makes several recommendations to strengthen the foundations of philanthropy ...

Funds SA, Mercer Super make key appointments

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2024
... deputy governor to its board, while Mercer Super has a new chair. Guy Debelle has joined the fund for South Australian government employees, bringing a tremendous depth of experience in financial and economic policy to the Funds SA board, having spent ...