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Super failures, greenwashing: ASIC's key issues in 2025

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has identified what it believes to be the most significant current, ongoing and emerging issues within its regulatory remit for 2025. "Increased market volatility, geopolitical changes, the ...

Rest appoints first-ever chief of staff

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
Rest has appointed a senior wealth management leader and superannuation expert from Insignia Financial to take the reins as chief of staff. The $93 billion industry with around two million members said the appointee, Gideon Lipman, will help the fund ...

How much is needed to maintain your standard of living in retirement?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
Super Consumers Australia (SCA) has unveiled new savings targets to help Australians work out how much they'll need to save for a lengthy retirement, provided they own their home outright. For single retirees aged 65 planning to spend at a "mid-level" ...

Super moves: ART, QIC, Rest, CareSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
QIC has welcomed two new starters to its state investments team: a portfolio manager in Brisbane and a senior portfolio manager in Sydney. Daniel Rigney has been appointed as portfolio manager, arriving from Rest Super, where he managed quantitative ...

Ausfood Super appoints chief executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
Australian Food Super, the superannuation fund set up for employees in the meat industry, has named Michael Sykes as its new chief executive. Formerly known as the Australian Meat Industry Superannuation Trust or AMIST Super, the fund has $3 billion ...

Team Super names retirement chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
A former Aware Super head of advice has been appointed chief retirement officer at Team Super ahead of its merger with TWUSUPER to create a $21 billion fund. Reporting to chief executive Vasyl Nair, Sarah Forman has taken up the new role at Team Super ...

Vanguard fined US$106m for investors' massive tax bill

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Vanguard US$106.4 million for "materially misleading" investors in the Investor Target Retirement Funds (Investor TRFs) about their future tax liabilities. The failings relate to Vanguard dropping ...

$3m super tax will level playing field: Australia Institute

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
Laws that will double the tax on earnings of superannuation balances over $3 million, which were shelved in late 2024, will make the system fairer particularly as many are doing it tough, The Australia Institute says. The Australia Institute chief economist ...

Grattan Institute renews calls for best-in-show super funds, partial annuitisation

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
The Grattan Institute is urging the government to mandate the partial annuitisation of Australians' superannuation and implement the 'best-in-show' list of funds to help simplify a "complex" system and allow retirees to spend their savings ...

Coalition members call for superannuation guarantee reform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
Coalition members have called for reforms that would give workers the choice to limit their superannuation guarantee (SG) - to receive higher take-home pay. National Party senator Matt Canavan said the Coalition should consider giving workers more control ...