Netwealth’s belated decision to make First Guardian consumers whole offers an opportunity for the superannuation sector to ...

Netwealth’s belated decision to make First Guardian consumers whole offers an opportunity for the superannuation sector to avoid descending into a partisan conflict between profit-to-member funds and ...

The message from ASIC and APRA at the Retirement Leaders Summit in Canberra on 13 August was clear: super funds are not treating their Retirement Income Covenant obligations with the urgency the ...

A balanced portfolio currently has 5 per cent sitting in cash which the client wants deployed to either equities or credit. That was the hypothetical scenario that advisers, researchers and asset ...

Senior superannuation fund executives must learn to separate the AI reality from the hype that currently surrounds it or run the risk of committing capital to big projects that don’t achieve results.

Technology delivery in financial services is changing fast. In less than two years, generative AI has gone from one big experiment to enterprise adoption. It can now be seen helping teams produce ...

APRA’s move to slap licence conditions on HESTA following its admin transfer from MUFG to Grow Inc. is counterproductive. After all, the regulators want super funds to improve their administration and ...

What comes next is weak economies and tough policy choices. Going back before going forward, in 2020-21, aggressively applied ...

Twin peaks. Front-loading of rate hikes to higher peaks means recession is coming If history is a guide, we will see a peak ...

The Australian government announced the “Your Future, Your Super” (YFYS) reform package in the 2020-21 Budget, with the YFYS ...

Retirement is a relatively recent phenomenon in Australian society. Life expectancies at birth were around 56 years for men ...

Reputational issues may change over time – there is a current focus on cyber resilience – but the obligation on Boards to ...