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ASIC reads the riot act to the super industry: Longo

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... waiting..." Not a single trustee in that review bothered to monitor or report on end-to-end death benefit claims handling times, nor did they have performance objectives for these times. Many also neglected to track how long claims sat in limbo, leaving ...

Investors face headwinds in integrating physical climate risks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
While investors are increasingly factoring physical climate risks into their decision making, there are several challenges to doing so, a review of public funds' experience has found. A new report from CPP Investments and thinktank OMFIF looks at how ...

Telegram pump and dump schemers plead guilty

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... the public Telegram group known as 'ASX Pump and Dump Group.' The names of stocks were shared to the group nine times over a three-week period in September 2021. Each of the defendants in this case purchased some but not all the stocks they conspired ...

Up to two million Aussies could face super tax: FSC

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... be the $2 million threshold with no indexation scenario, affecting a staggering 1.8 million Australians, more than three times Labor's proposition. Ultimately, the FSC saidthe decision to index the tax will impose "significant impact" on younger Australians. ...

HESTA turns the lights back on after service shutdown

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
... and claims and switch investment options. However, although online services have resumed, HESTA advised that processing times for some transactions may initially take longer than usual. That's because its team is still working through requests received ...

Australia's billionaire boom branded 'morally wrong' by Oxfam

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... retail, investments, and mining/resources. Oxfam also revealed that the average 'Rich Lister' now holds more than 116,000 times the wealth of an Australian in the bottom 50%. Notably, the average wealth of someone in the bottom 50% of the wealth spectrum ...

Minimum wage to rise 3.5%

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... rates are likely to lead to higher consumer demand and a higher level of economic growth than we have experienced in recent times," the Fair Work Commission said.

Why emotions, cash derail good investments

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025
While we know that during turbulent times it is critical not to let emotions get in the way of investing, an investment expert and former policymaker says it is equally important to remain active and not lean in on cash. Amid the volatility and frenetic ...

Centrepoint Alliance locks in hundreds of Brighter Super advice clients

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025
... and associated figures, which will determine the final settlement amount, which is calculated based on a multiple of 1.25 times revenue transitioned, on June 13. It said a final announcement on June 17 will confirm client counts, associated fees, and ...

HESTA members to keep paying fees as disruption continues

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... members". Still, members and financial advisers have been left frustrated. "I have seen large back office overhauls many times in my career, it's never involved freezing anyone's money for any period of time," Lythgo Crew Wealth Management senior ...
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