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AustralianSuper readies tech stack for Payday Super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2025
Following a successful pilot program with Rest, Wrkr and MUFG Retirement Solutions will now work on a Payday Super solution for AustralianSuper. Wrkr and MUFG Retirement Solutions will work together to deliver a digital platform that will integrate ...

Microsoft flips AI switch on for MUFG

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2025
MUFG Pension and Market Services (MPMS) has collaborated with Microsoft to adopt AI-powered solutions across its MUFG Retirement Solutions and MUFG Corporate Markets business divisions. The five-year strategic partnership is built on a co-investment ...

Adviser receives permanent ban over 'dishonest' conduct

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2025
ASIC has permanently banned financial adviser Barry David King of Melbourne following several years of misusing client funds and falsifying documents. King was found to have engaged in serious misconduct, including concealing information from clients ...

CSLR releases revised levy estimate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2025
The Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR) has released a FY26 revised levy estimate, coming down slightly from the figure estimated in January. The CSLR said the need for a revised estimate was triggered due to the initial levy estimate, issued ...

Acenda hires from Hostplus

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
Acenda has appointed Lee Sammartino to the new role of general manager of superannuation partnerships, a key role in its drive for growth in group insurance. Sammartino, who began this week, brings nearly 30 years of experience in financial services ...

Fees for no service see former adviser banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
A former financial adviser is now banned for 10 years after she was found to have knowingly charged fees for no service. Kiriley Roper was a director, shareholder and adviser at Lighthouse Partners in Redcliffe, Queensland. ASIC alleges that between ...

AMP hit with multiple court filings

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
AMP has been served two separate legal proceedings; one a fresh class action and the other from Dexus Funds Management. The class action - which has been lodged in the Federal Court of Victoria - has been filed against N.M. Superannuation Proprietary ...

ASIC targets advisers, platforms, research houses in super switching scams

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... superannuation platforms and research houses are playing in members being pushed into high-risk investment schemes. The corporate regulator is closely looking at the entire ecosystem of the high-pressure tactics used for superannuation switching, which ...

Banned director sentenced for running financial services firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
A former company director has received a prison sentence after he was found to have continued to run a financial services business despite having been banned from doing so. In 2018, Joshua Fuoco was found to have engaged in misleading and deceptive ...

ASIC places travel restriction on First Guardian RE directors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
... held in bank accounts. ASIC said it sought the orders to ensure Anderson and Selimaj remain in Australia to assist the regulator with its investigation and to preserve assets while ASIC's investigation continues. ASIC is also seeking the appointment ...