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Ending the super wars: Government acts to legislate an objective

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2023
... aspirations of everyday Australians." "An objective of superannuation will help drive the focus of policy reform to address systemic issues, such as including superannuation contributions on Government paid parental leave to help close the gender gap ...

Australia survives global pension rout

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2023
... confluence of risks that combined and amplified, leading to a significant decline in assets. Further, she believes that future systemic risks to assets will stem from environmental, societal, and geopolitical factors. "While many pension funds are focused ...

Mercer proposes superannuation tax overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2023
... recommendations would improve the super tax system now and into the future. "The proposed changes address critical and systemic issues in ways that have little to no impact on the Budget, while seeking to improve the system over the long term. We can ...

Cold calling advice firms called out

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023
... several cases have been report to ASIC but that the regulator pursuing advisers is time consuming and would not address the systemic risk to consumers. "We all know the feeling of receiving an unsolicited call from a number we don't recognise and speaking ...

Australia's 1% just keep getting richer: Study

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2023
... richest." Oxfam is calling on the Australian government to scrap the stage three tax cuts, and to instead implement a systemic and wide-ranging increase in taxation of the super-rich. The organisation has calculated that a wealth tax of 2% on those with ...

Federal Court finds against finfluencer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2023
... its decision down in December, with the judge saying the advice provided by Scholz "formed part of the continuous and systemic business operations by which Mr Scholz derived profit". The conduct occurred between March 2020 and November 2021, during which ...

Expand access to financial services: AUSTRAC

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2022
... procedures in place is essential to ensure that members of the community can access financial services so that temporary or systemic barriers do not prevent people from gaining this access." AUSTRAC developed this guidance in consultation with a broad ...

Trustees must improve IDR processes: ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2022
... IDR policies in Stage 2 used highly complex language. Elsewhere, ASIC said compliance with the requirements related to systemic issues needs attention, while some board reports lacked sufficient detail on internal dispute resolution (IDR) metrics to ...

Six local funds in world's top 100: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2022
... portfolios that are exposed to the entire market and economy - and have a distinctive opportunity to contribute to real-world systemic change by contributing to a Paris-aligned future, consistent with net zero emissions by 2050." In the five years the ...

HESTA commits $240m to build-to-rent pipeline

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2022
... provide critical services and need to afford housing near their work, and economic productivity that presents broader systemic risks to long-term investors like HESTA." A recent Frontier Advisors report, Super in the Economy, commissioned by Industry ...