February super news

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ASFA remembers Ray Stevens

ASFA was saddened to learn that ASFA Life Member Ray Stevens passed away on Thursday 6 January at age 84.

He was a former Federal President and a much-loved member of the Victorian ASFA community.

Ray also made himself available to comment on a wide range of ASFA submissions and regularly represented ASFA in Canberra attending meetings with Centrelink, the ATO and other related government bodies. His opinions were widely sought after by leading journalists.

Ray was admitted as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia in 1964. He gave generously of his time to the profession as a Member of the Ageing Australia Taskforce and Superannuation Projections and Disclosure Subcommittee. Ray received the Actuary of the Year Award in 1990.

He will be remembered as an actuary with a great sense of humour, a quiet achiever, a huge supporter of ASFA, and an “all-round great guy”.

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Daniel Mulino MP

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Born in Brindisi, Italy, Daniel was a young child when he moved with his family to Australia. He grew up in Canberra and completed his first degrees – arts and law – at the ANU. He then completed a Master of Economics (University of Sydney) and a PhD in economics from Yale.

He lectured at Monash University, was an economic adviser in the Gillard government and was a Victorian MP from 2014 to 2018. As Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer of Victoria, Daniel helped deliver major infrastructure projects and developed innovative financing structures for community projects.

In 2018 he was preselected for the new federal seat of Fraser and became its first MP at the 2019 election, re-elected in 2022 and 2025. From 2022 to 2025, Daniel was chair of the House of Representatives’ Standing Economics Committee in which he chaired inquiries; economic dynamism, competition and business formation and insurers’ responses to 2022 major floods claims.

In 2025, he became the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services.

In August 2022, Daniel published ‘Safety Net: The Future of Welfare in Australia’, which aims to explore the ways in which an insurance approach can improve the effectiveness of government service delivery.