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Chalmers looks to trade super pool for minerals with US

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
The US Superannuation Investment Summit has kicked off in the United States with Australian super funds exploring deeper investment opportunities within the US. Treasurer Jim Chalmers addressed the summit, essentially serving up Australia's retirement ...

NGS Super shutters direct investment option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
NGS Super will close its Self-Managed Direct Investment Option, saying it is no longer viable to continue offering the service. NGS Super's Self-Managed Direct Investment Option (DIO) was provided via OneVue Wealth Services. However, OneVue has advised ...

ASIC turns up the heat on private markets

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... higher fees, information asymmetries, and adverse selection risks are on ASIC's radar. ASIC is also examining superannuation funds' role in the private assets sector. APRA statistics show that superannuation funds allocate between 0% and 38% ...

TAL taps ex-CBA deputy as chair

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... and chair of the Life Insurance Association of Singapore. King has experience in insurance, wealth management, superannuation, investments, and broader financial services - particularly growing and transforming businesses through differentiated client/member ...

Solutions to avoid concentration risk: Scientific Beta

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
The increasing dominance of giant technology stocks poses "significant challenges" for superannuation funds and other institutional investors, as index solutions provider Scientific Beta touts two possible approaches to better manage concentration risk. ...

Treasury drafts superannuation retirement income principles

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
... Treasury draft proposal obtained by Financial Standard outlines voluntary principles for the design and delivery of superannuation retirement income solutions, extending beyond the obligations of the Retirement Income Covenant. The principles seek to ...

Super fund investment in US to skyrocket

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
... Mandala, in conjunction with Super Members Council and IFM Investors. The Going Global report said Australians' superannuation assets are one of the largest and fastest growing pools of retirement savings in the world. "As the system has grown and matured ...

Iress posts strong profit rebound, completes transformation program

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
... on the prior year, which Iress attributed to the divestment of non-strategic assets - the most recent being its superannuation business sale to Apex Group following a strategic review last month. During the 2024 financial year, Iress divested three non-strategic ...

Cost-of-living continues to rock retirement confidence

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
... them. "While just over half don't expect to achieve a comfortable retirement, it doesn't mean that they can't." CFS Superannuation chief executive Kelly Power agrees with Powe's suggestion on seeking financial advice, claiming those who receive advice ...

Superannuation powerbrokers bound for US investment summit

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2025
Superannuation, investment management, and banking leaders will descend on Washington DC and New York next week to showcase a super system poised to channel hundreds of billions into the US over the next decade. In a statement, representatives of super ...