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$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 ...

ASIC names new chief executive

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... executive Scott Gregson will join ASIC on March 29 to replace the current interim chief executive Greg Yanco, who is set to retire after a 16-year stint with the regulator. Gregson has been in the top job at the ACCC for three years and has been with ...

Super moves: Future Fund, QIC, Vanguard Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
Max Gill has been promoted to senior portfolio analyst with QIC's state investments team. Gill joined the Queensland Government's $68 billion investment arm six years ago working initially with the global multi-asset team followed by the state ...

Top asset management trends for 2025

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
Despite a turbulent 2024, the prospect of more accommodating monetary and regulatory policies has turbocharged an up and to the right trend that's flattered many asset managers' businesses. However, themes that will shape the industry now, and in the ...

MUFG Pension & Market Services awards tech mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
MUFG Pension & Market Services (MPMS) has awarded Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) a mandate to help transform its retirement solutions business. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), in the new partnership, outlines joint initiatives in product development ...

Channel Investment Management secures RE mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
Channel Investment Management has secured a responsible entity (RE) mandate from a global real estate fund manager to oversee another two strategies. CBRE Investment Management's Global Infrastructure Securities Fund and Global Property Securities ...

Bennelong secures first trustee mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
Bennelong has welcomed its first client, Paragon IM, following the expansion of its trustee services offering in October last year. Bennelong Funds Management is now the responsible entity (RE) for the Paragon Australia Long Short Fund. The fund invests ...

How to simplify super to get better retirement outcomes: Mercer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
The superannuation system has lacked a clear direction for the provision of retirement outcomes, and while this is gradually changing, there remains a need to make it simpler for Australians, according to a Mercer report. The Australian retirement income ...