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Prime Super names investments lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2024
Prime Super has recruited a former Media Super chief investment officer to lead the investment team. Michael McQueen joins the $7 billion industry fund as general manager of investments, replacing Jane Kang who left last year. In the new role, McQueen ...

FAAA takes aim at finfluencers with new campaign

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2024
... can also lower the risk of attaining unreliable information online, which could be costly. According to the FAAA, Australians have lost over $1.3 billion to financial scams last year. "One-in-three Australians are still turning to unqualified finfluencers ...

Liberal MP calls for SoA replacement

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2024
... this government should be doing daily. How do we reduce regulation? How do we reduce red tape? Because right now, Australians and small businesses are just heaving under the weight of the regulation in this place, and the Albanese government needs to ...

FAAA moves to combat adviser shortage with new partnership

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2024
... is a well-known and serious issue. We hope this agreement with FPSB India will lead to more advisers working with Australians to help them achieve their financial goals," she said. Once peaking at 26,500 registered financial advisers in 2019, the sector ...

CFS, Viridian Advisory launch low-cost advice deal

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2024
... new advisers into our network via our Professional Year program, has allowed us to provide affordable advice to more Australians through this digitally driven engagement model." Power added that CFS will consider expanding the arrangement with other ...

AustralianSuper bids farewell to retirement chief

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
AustralianSuper chief retirement officer Shawn Blackmore is setting off to establish his own venture after 17 years with the fund. Blackmore, also previously served as group executive of member experience and advice, and general manager operations ...

Retail super funds spend big on advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
Retail superannuation offerings from AMP, Macquarie, and HUB24 spend big on external financial advisers, while industry funds prefer to invest in their own advisers and intra-fund advice, new APRA data reveals. APRA's recently published data based ...

Cbus implements senior redundancies

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024
Cbus has made several senior staff redundant in pursuit of its growth strategy. The $94 billion industry fund has let go of its head of compliance, acting head of brand and marketing, head of marketing, communications, and insights, head of strategy ...

Jones preps DBFO Tranche 2 for parliament

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
... fit-for-purpose. It's too expensive. Too hard to access. And too strangled by red tape to be helpful." "Four in five Australians aged 45 to 54 said they needed financial advice, but did not have the capacity to pay for it. Seventy-four percent of Australians ...

Cole puts funds on notice as expenditure data is revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
APRA has published the in-depth data on super funds' expenditure from marketing costs and payments to industrial bodies to spending on member services, as the regulator puts a spotlight on how member money is being spent. AustralianSuper had the ...