In the financial year 2023–24, 4.7 million complaints were reported by financial firms of all types under the internal dispute resolution (IDR) data reporting framework.
The country’s largest super fund is set to compensate some 7,000 people who have been impacted by delayed handling times.
The Australian Retirement Trust (ART) and property fund manager ISPT have secured a 99-year lease with St John’s College within the University of Sydney to develop a $585 million healthcare and life sciences hub in Camperdown, Sydney.
While merger parties are now set to face new mandatory notification requirements, the competition regulator has welcomed its expanded regulatory powers.
The Cbus chair has maintained the fund’s directors satisfy necessary fit and proper tests, while also defending the board nominations made by the CFMEU.
A decade in the making, industry bodies have praised the passage of the objective of super on Thursday.
October’s CPI data is unlikely to sway the RBA’s December monetary policy decision, but those predicting a rate cut in February are now entertaining the possibility of a delayed start to the easing cycle.
The local super industry now commands more than $4 trillion in assets, boosted by impressive quarterly returns.
The $340 billion fund has welcomed three senior investment executives to its London office as it continues to internalise the management of international equities, its single largest asset allocation.
The chair of the Future Fund has slammed critics of the sovereign wealth’s new mandate as “factually incorrect”.