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IFM Investors names chair

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2023
... experience in corporate governance and advising financial and asset managers, including as a special advisor to Lazard Australia for over 10 years. Tanner is currently a director of Suncorp Group and Virgin Australia International, a member of the investment ...

Government pledges $2bn to fast-track social housing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2023
... unveiled a $2 billion Social Housing Accelerator investment to expedite the construction of new social housing across Australia. The Social Housing Accelerator funds will be dispensed to State and Territory governments within the next fortnight. It's ...

Women in Super appoints chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2023
... engagement, advocacy, and product at Cbus for five years. She is also a former deputy chief executive of Industry Super Australia. In addition to Women in Super, she also sits on the board of Victoria Legal Aid as a non-executive director. "Robbie Campo ...

Super gender balance gap increases

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2023
... Toorak residents made $222,967 per annum - the highest for Victoria, followed by Portsea workers with $221,236. Western Australia's Cottesloe and Peppermint Grove made the top 10 list with residents making $229,805 on average. Surgeons and anaesthetists ...

Risk of recession growing: Podcast

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023
... will likely get back to focusing on other issues, such as the RBA rate hikes. "The issues I think that are critical for Australia, whether we have a US or global recession, is how much the RBA raises interest rates, and a lot there depends on inflationary ...

Future Fund adds to investment team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2023
... management of investments in a $5 billion portfolio of unlisted property funds, mandates, clubs and joint ventures in Australia and offshore. In this role, he also sat on several advisory boards and investor investment committees. Before that, he spent ...

AFCA outlines systemic issues in wealth management

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2023
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) has shed light on what it considers systemic shortcomings in the superannuation, investment, and financial advice industries. The AFCA Systemic Issues Insights report identified multiple instances ...

Farewell Michael Harrison

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2023
... Prix, and even served three terms as the Deputy Lord Mayor of Adelaide. He was also a valued public speaker, both in Australia and abroad, and author of several books. In 1997, Harrison was tasked with reinventing Zurich's Australian life insurance ...

Finfluencers bridge financial advice gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023
... limited advice. The advice gap is widest among adults aged 18-34. It is precisely this cohort that finfluencers such as Victoria Devine, host of She's on the Money podcast with a following of 172,000 on Instagram, have been able to tap into. Guideway ...

AFCA tallies up COVID-19 complaints

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) received close to 1500 complaints about superannuation funds over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Releasing data now that the World Health Organisation has declared the pandemic over, AFCA said ...