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MLC trustees to pay $65m in MySuper class action settlement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024

... action that alleged it delayed transferring more than 300,000 members to cheaper MySuper options. Maurice Blackburn has today advised it reached a settlement with MLC Super Fund, NULIS Nominees and MLC Nominees in the class action it brought on behalf ...

Super funds should focus on 'simple' advice: Jones

ELIZA BAVIN | FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024

... picks up the phone and calls their fund, the fund will be able to answer those basic questions which they can't answer today." What the new class of adviser will actually be called remains to be determined, however there are calls for the title to ...

Former abrdn MD takes on chief executive role

ELIZA BAVIN | FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024

... been instrumental to its success." "He helped establish the operational infrastructure and reporting framework that we use today and have provided invaluable guidance and leadership to the team and board over this six-year period. Consistent with his ...

Treasury gives Tranche 2 reform package preview

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024

... extremely important that the education for NCAs can count towards a full financial planning degree, and that the NCAs of today can become the professional financial advisers of the future. Since the banks and other institutions exited financial advice ...

GDP grows but still slow: 'Confirms our worst fears'

ELIZA BAVIN | WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024

Australian gross domestic product (GDP) rose 0.3% in the September quarter 2024 and by 0.8% since September 2023, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). "The Australian economy grew for the 12th quarter in a row ...

Netwealth celebrates $100bn amid 25th anniversary

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2024

... platform." "In 2007, eight years later, thanks to a number of early supporters, we achieved our first billion dollars of FUA and today, as we continue our mission to improve the financial futures of one million Australians, we are proud to administer ...

AMP completes advice licensees sale

KARREN VERGARA | MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024

... Personal Financial Services (PFS). It now has about 1300 financial advisers, 400 businesses, and some 180 employees. From today, AMP group executive of advice Matt Lawler becomes the chief executive of NewCo. "Very pleasingly, 103 contracts were offered ...

Swan hits back at Bragg: 'That's wrong of you'

ELIZA BAVIN | FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024

Cbus chair Wayne Swan faced the Senate Economics Committee today to answer questions around the super fund's claim handling delays, governance and payments made to the CFMEU. Cbus is facing legal action from the Australian Securities and Investments ...

'New class of advisers' need clear-cut distinction: FAAA

KARREN VERGARA | THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024

... towards the full financial planning degree, one of the two big opportunities that we see in this proposal is that the NCAs of today can become the professional financial advisers of the future," she said. Advice practices can too leverage NCAs to advise ...

Super funds 'playing to their strengths' in private markets

ELIZA BAVIN | WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2024

... infrastructure and property for decades, and many have made forays into private credit and private equity," the report said. "Today, around 16.5% of sector assets are invested in private assets, although for the largest cohort, so-called 'industry' funds ...

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Funds SA appoints chief investment officer

ANDREW MCKEAN

Funds SA has appointed a new chief investment officer, who will join from Hostplus, to commence in February 2025.

Australian Retirement Trust appoints new chief risk officer

ANDREW MCKEAN

Australian Retirement Trust (ART) has appointed a new chief risk officer that's set to start in March 2025.

UniSuper has 'some work to get on with' on cyber front: Chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON

UniSuper's leadership team has touched on how the fund is strengthening its operations following the extensive system outage in May this year.

Super framework, SMSFs conducive to financial abuse: Inquiry

KARREN VERGARA

Lax superannuation laws make it too easy for perpetrators of domestic violence to access victims' retirement savings, while the current framework for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) enables financial abuse to flourish, a parliamentary inquiry found.

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