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Treasury launches retirement phase consultations

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
Treasury has launched two consultations relating to the retirement phase, one of which seeks the right metrics and indicators to create transparency and improve retirement outcomes. The proposed Retirement Reporting Framework will require trustees to ...

Overcoming the three-body problem in advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
Financial advisers have heard how an active, factor-based approach can help eliminate the three-body problem in financial advice. In 1867, Sir Isaac Newton identified the three-body problem. Relating to the laws of gravity, he found that it's impossible ...

'We're proceeding' with Div 296: Chalmers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
Legislation for the government's $3 million super tax has been pushed to beyond next month's Economic Reform Roundtable, but Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the government has every intention to proceed as planned. "We're proceeding with the policy that ...

Younger Aussies want personalised financial advice: CALI

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2025
New research conducted by the peak body of life insurance indicated close to half of young Australians want financial advice on life insurance, but only one in 10 receive it. The Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI) said more Australians between ...

Macquarie AM closes $6bn European infra strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2025
Macquarie Asset Management has raised a total of €3.5 billion ($6.3bn) at the final close of its first dedicated European infrastructure debt fund. The Macquarie European Infrastructure Debt Fund (MEID) has raised €1.2 billion ($2.1bn) upon the ...

UniSuper lifts fund manager investment to $100m

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
UniSuper has increased its investment in venture fund manager Uniseed by $25 million, taking its total commitment to $100 million. The $149 billion industry fund became Uniseed's exclusive institutional investment partner in March 2022, at which time ...

Bill Gates to shutter Gates Foundation in 2045

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
Bill Gates says he will give away all his wealth over the next two decades and close the Gates Foundation permanently in 2045. It's a big change for the foundation which, when established in 2000, was done so with the charter that it would continue ...

Mercer Super recruits whistleblower as risk chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
A former UniSuper risk executive has landed at Mercer Superannuation Australia as its new chief risk officer. Mercer Super has confirmed the appointment of Dennis Gentilin - an ex-banker turned whistleblower - to the role. "Dennis' expertise and ...

Coalition's super on PPL plan 'deeply worrying'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
The Coalition has confirmed that it plans to make paying superannuation on Commonwealth Paid Parental Leav e (PPL) optional for working mothers, as a $158 million budget saving measure. The Coalition's election costings revealed several cost-saving ...

Finfluencer failed to disclose paid promotions, says regulator

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2025
Days after research from the Ontario regulator found those who make financial decisions based on finfluencers' recommendations are 12 times more likely to be scammed, a Canadian finfluencer was busted for failing to disclose sponsorship of content and ...