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Financial services minister Stephen Jones to retire from politics

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
Labor frontbencher, assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones is retiring from politics and will not contest the upcoming federal election. Jones spent 15 years as the member for Whitlam - covering Illawarra and the Southern ...

AFCA chief operating officer departs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... to joining AFCA Untersteiner spent more than 13 years with the Australian Taxation Office in various roles including assistant commissioner and acting chief financial officer from August 2016 to June 2017. Untersteiner joined AFCA when it was receiving ...

Minimum service standards for super funds welcomed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones announced new mandatory minimum service standards for all large APRA-regulated superannuation funds. Chalmers said the reforms will improve member outcomes and how funds engage with their ...

Australian Unity hires from Centuria

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
... portfolio of high-quality assets and related stakeholder engagement. Plant has been with AUHPT since 2014 and served as assistant fund manager since 2018. Lastly, Scott O'Donoghue has been appointed national portfolio manager healthcare property, with ...

Super admin providers face reckoning in 2025: Finura

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
More companies will divest their superannuation administration offerings in 2025, according to Finura, as super funds potentially move this service in-house amid tighter scrutiny from the regulators. ASIC suing Cbus for poor member claims experience ...

Coalition members call for superannuation guarantee reform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... costings that estimated their plan would deprive the average 30-year-old worker of $165,000 in retirement income. ACTU assistant secretary Joseph Mitchel said workers can't afford to lose $165,000 or more in retirement income, adding that super is a ...

TPG co-founder David Bonderman dies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
... which has now sponsored more than 300 students' world travel. At the beginning of his career, Bonderman worked as an assistant professor at Tulane University School of Law before becoming Special Assistant to the US Attorney General in the Civil Rights ...

Crypto operator to fork out millions after court ruling

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
... forward to engaging constructively with policymakers and regulators as these rules are developed. Yesterday, shadow assistant treasurer Luke Howarth said inaction on crypto is putting consumers at risk and holding back blockchain investment and innovation ...

UniSuper names product head

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2024
... has worked as a quant business risk and portfolio analyst at Colonial Mutual Investment Management and an actuarial assistant at Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited. "During my time at UniSuper, I've been fortunate to work alongside exceptional ...

Treasury reappoints 24 members to FSCP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024
... skills and experience available to the FSCP, to help ensure that key sectors of our economy are regulated effectively," Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones said. The Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response - Better Advice) Act 2021 established ...