Hope you all enjoyed the long weekend and are slowly remembering what day it is! We went to Melbourne for the weekend, where my husband and daughter watched three games of AFL at the MGC and one at the pub! Footy heaven. I caught up with friends and drank cocktails :)
In work news, the FSC ran a webinar yesterday regarding their new Standard 31 for platform investment governance. There are impacts for platforms, fund managers and advice licensees. And compliance (for platforms) is required by the end of the year. If you're not entirely sure how you're going to get it all sorted by then, please get in touch with myself or Matt. We 'ave ways...
Regards
Sarah
THOUGHT OF THE WEEK
Let's talk change, specifically the adoption of AI. I know lots of people are finding it pretty tricky!
Personally, I find a diagram helps. And this is one of my favourites. It's the Satir Curve. Developed by Virginia Satir. What it basically says, is that to get to the new status quo, you actually have to get through the chaos that is learning a new skill (the blue section in the diagram below).
Which is to say, give yourself permission to 'not be very good' at AI. Try some things out, watch some webinars, see what works, ask lots of questions, make mistakes.
You can't go from 'no AI' to 'all the AI'. There's the messy middle first. And that's okay.
Join Neil and I as we recap the recent IBRC Future Fund Admin 2026 Forum in Sydney.
Day one episode grapples with whether Australia’s superannuation industry will really consolidate to just a handful of mega funds. TL;DR - probably not! In our Day twoepisode we discuss the hard yards required to achieve real member experience improvements. Subscribe here.
Events we are running/speaking at:
CREW Webinar: Royal Commission Preparation and Section 19 with guest speaker Judith Charlton, Head of Internal Audit at UniSuper. Thursday, 11 June 2026 from 1-2pm via Zoom. Register here.
CREW In-Person Event Sydney - The Loneliest Role in the Building. Wednesday, 24 June 2026 from 4-7pm at the offices of Norton Rose Fulbright, Sydney with guest speakers Helen Taylor (Partner, Financial Services at Norton Rose Fulbright), Deborah Latimer (Group Chief Risk Officer at HUB24) and Geraldine de Vries (Division Director - Head of Regulatory Risk at Macquarie Group). Register here. Limited spaces. Women only, sorry blokes.
FSC Webinar - Mandatory Climate Reporting and Greenwashing Risk - Monday, 29 June 2026 from 1-2pm via Teams. Guest speakers are Geri McMahon from Baringa, John Moutsopoulos and Zein El Hassan from Mills Oakley. Register here.
For a full list of industry events relevant to SSFPP readers, click here.
ASIC v TELSTRA SUPER
Sharing a great read from our friend Cora Speed on LinkedIn this week: 'What the Telstra Super judgment reinforces about operational risk, compliance transformation and evidencing obligations in practice'. Cora has dived deep into the ASIC v Telstra Super judgment here.
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