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Brighter Super expands senior team

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... employers and partners. Brighter Super chief member officer Lisa Kay said: "After three years of mergers and acquisitions, our fund is now well placed to deliver on the promises we made to members and we will be out there with them, understanding their ...

APRA to continue crackdown on super fund expenditure

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... their best financial interest duty is in relation to expenditure decisions." Beverley-Smith referred to APRA's scrutiny in fund expenditure that was launched last year and which APRA now published annually. "We wanted to challenge spending by funds where ...

'We won't bet against the US', but 'China is not a foe': Elia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... regard." Despite Hostplus feeling that China is still a positive investment play, Elia did flag that there are some areas the fund is avoiding, namely infrastructure. "We're early-stage investors in China. We basically came to the conclusion that ...

Stay or leave: ASIC's private credit clampdown tests managers

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
ASIC's crackdown on the private credit market has created a 'stay or leave' proposition for some fund managers, a Financial Standard event heard. Speaking at the recent Financial Standard Advisers in Focus event in Melbourne, HMC Private ...

SQM Research faces court over 'favourable' rating of Shield

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
ASIC is suing SQM Research over its 'favourable' rating for the Shield Master Fund, marking the first time the watchdog has acted against a research house. ASIC alleges that the research house failed to obtain information needed to properly ...

Interprac sued over Shield, First Guardian failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... representatives Venture Egg and Rhys Reilly Pty Ltd advised about 6843 clients to invest some $677 million into the Shield Master Fund and First Guardian Master Fund. Of these, Venture Egg and its principal Ferras Merhi advised 2930 clients to invest ...

Super performance test, DBFO reforms coming: Government

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2025
... uphold member outcomes as the core purpose of the test. Secondly, changes must maintain an objective standard or benchmark for fund performance. And third, any changes must be enduring to set the test up for long term stability," Chalmers said. Chalmers ...

Super good for financial stability, for now: RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2025
... superannuation system is a "national asset" but warned that funds need to take proper measures to protect it. "Historically, the super fund sector has had a stabilising influence on our financial system, and we don't see the sector posing systemic ...

Mercer Investments shutters four options

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2025
... international equities options that sit within its Managed Portfolio Series Funds. Mercer's Blended Global Equities Hedged MPS Fund, Guardcap Global Equity MPS Fund, T. Rowe Price Global Focused Equity MPS Fund and Wellington Global Equity MPS Fund ...

HUB24, TAL to launch retirement income product

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2025
HUB24 will launch a lifetime retirement solution in conjunction with TAL in the first half of 2026. HUB24 chief executive Andrew Alcock said the solution will address one of the most pressing concerns for Australians - the risk of outliving their retirement ...