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Most read in 2025: Superannuation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 DEC 2025
... this year. Minimum standard services for super funds welcomed Treasurer Jim Chalmers and former Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones announced new mandatory minimum service standards for all large APRA-regulated superannuation funds. Chalmers said the reforms ...

Prime Super recruits product veteran

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025
... for the master trust, Tkalec undertook specialist contract roles at AMP and Russell Investments. The second hire, Stephen Jones has been appointed as insurance claims and reporting specialist bringing more than two decades of expertise in complex claims ...

Feature: Digital advice | Sleeping giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
... can be powerful - it is inevitable," he says. Overwhelmed In late 2023, when former financial services minister Stephen Jones broached that a new class of advisers (NCA) can help make advice more accessible and affordable, he directly pointed to superannuation ...

Treasury launches consultation on CSLR breaching sub-sector levy caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... $70 million to fund the scheme for FY26 - breaching the $20 million cap. Shortly after, former assistant treasurer Stephen Jones announced Labor would undertake a post-implementation, comprehensive review of the CSLR to ensure victims of financial misconduct ...

Advice bodies want efficiency, long-term solutions from Mulino

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... as assistant treasurer and minister for financial services on May 13, filling in the position previously held by Stephen Jones. Mulino's vast experience and academic qualifications, which includes working with the World Bank and the US Federal Reserve ...

Labor wins: What super, advice industries want

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
... to working with the re-elected Labor government and new financial services minister, following the retirement of Stephen Jones. FAAA chief executive Sarah Abood reaffirmed the FAAA's commitment to collaborating on critical policy areas to improve the ...

Spender criticises Labor's 'lack of urgency' on advice reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... Australia's (FAAA) federal election financial services summit, Spender said while minister for financial services Stephen Jones has worked to deliver some reform, she wished there had been more movement. "I've made my commitment in this space ...

Jones clarifies scope of new class of adviser

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025
Minister for financial services Stephen Jones has ruled out talk that the new class of adviser could provide holistic personal retirement advice and acknowledged the need to reform the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR) during a post-budget briefing ...

Tranche 2 of DBFO dumps SOAs, enables 'nudges'

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
... to financial advice about savings, retirement and insurance for all Australians," minister for financial services Stephen Jones said. "The government continues to develop legislation to modernise the best interests duty and create a new class of adviser. ...

Jones calls out super sector, hints at more reform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones told Financial Standard that the government's work on reforming the superannuation sector is not done. Speaking on the Financial Standard podcast, Jones praised the positive aspects ...
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