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Massive Acenda job cuts ire former staff

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2026
Former Acenda employees are slamming the life insurer for slashing jobs without proper consultation following the merger, which have mostly impacted past MLC Life staff. According to the Finance Sector Union (FSU), since Resolution Life Australia and ...

CALI pushes for advice reforms as Australians turn to AI

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2026
... for insurance advice, underscoring the need for the government to deliver on its advice reforms, the Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI) said. Research by CALI found three in five Australians trust financial advice received from AI-powered programs ...

ASIC warns Gen Z against chasing unrealistic crypto gains

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2026
... said: "Financial education goes far beyond understanding money. It's about building the confidence, habits and practical life skills young people need to make good financial decisions throughout their lives."

Super tax changes shake HNWs' retirement confidence: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2026
... report feeling less confident about their retirement as changes to superannuation and tax settings take their toll. Generation Life's new 2025/26 Navigating Uncertainty Report found heightened taxation of super, like the recently passed Division 296 ...

AMP investment chief reshapes her team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2026
AMP investment chief Anna Shelley has handed out a string of promotions on the back of a solid year for its superannuation business. Stuart Eliot, Duy To, Steve Flegg and Jeronimo Harrison have all been promoted as part of the investment team refresh. ...

Tahlia Rozis heads to Generation Life

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2026
... Management in November as distribution manager, has left the firm after three months to take up a new role at Generation Life. Generation Life has appointed Rozis as distribution manager. She joins Brendon Rodda's team; late last year, Rodda moved ...

Division 296 legislation passes, LISTO to increase

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2026
... system "fairer and stronger" when they were in government by getting rid of fees on low balances and abolished the mandatory life insurance uptake for those that did not need it. "As you can see, none of those reforms that were introduced by the Coalition ...

BlackRock caps outflows on US$27bn private credit fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2026
... companies and takes first lien positions. These are generally floating-rate loans with a relatively short average investment life. With US$25.6 billion in assets at the end of January, 93% of HLEND's portfolio comprised private investments. At four ...

Australians unlock only 1% of $600bn in home equity: Deloitte

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2026
A new study reveals that around $600 billion of home equity can be unlocked through structured equity release products, yet only a fraction has been used thus far. Deloitte's 2026 Australian Reverse Mortgage Survey - compiled in collaboration with Heartland ...

Major super reforms cost members $670m in death benefits: ASFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2026
... Seven years since the two pieces of legislation took effect, ASFA estimated about 5000 Australians per year died without life insurance cover, resulting in their families missing out on nearly $700 million in death benefits. Furthermore, some 11,000 ...