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HESTA records over $10bn in investment returns

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2026
... results also follow the super fund's announcement to lower investment fees across most of its ready-made investment options in the last financial year; as well as plans to reduce insurance fees, improving net returns for members. HESTA chief executive ...

FEATURE | Recruitment: Laying foundations

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2026
... creating friction during mergers. "There's a growing number of funds investing in new platforms, but the diversity of options makes integration difficult," Turner explains, pointing to enterprise data storage solutions like Databricks and Snowflake ...

Diversa hit with additional licence conditions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 DEC 2025
... concerns relating to Diversa's investment governance frameworks and practices, including oversight of platform investment options made available to members. This comes in the wake of ASIC launching legal action against Diversa for its role in the collapse ...

Australian Food Super closes two options

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2025
Australian Food Super is closing two of its options that have become costly to run relative to their size and lack member interest. On 3 March 2026, the Alternatives and Property investment options will close. From 7 March 2026, any remaining balances ...

Netwealth to spend $101m compensating First Guardian victims

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025
... enquiries to understand or evaluate the investment risk" in either class of the product before adding them as investment options. Documents show Netwealth relied on reports from SQM Research and, while there were indications the options may not be suitable ...

Equity Trustees hit with additional licence conditions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025
... address concerns relating to its investment governance frameworks and practices, including oversight of platform investment options made available to members. This comes after APRA sent a letter to all platform trustees in October in the wake of the ...

Brighter Super names acting CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... O'Donnell has helped drive the strong investment outcomes across the fund's suite of superannuation investment options," a fund spokesperson said. Before entering the superannuation sector, O'Donnell worked as a portfolio manager with Whitehaven ...

Mulino looks to reform CSLR

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... roundtable, possible reforms to the CSLR to make it "more sustainable" were also discussed. "We looked at a wide range of options, including potentially bringing in other sectors that could contribute to the CSLR, and looking at the scope of the CSLR ...

AMP to pay $29m to settle class action

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... charged to members of certain AMP superannuation funds, and the interest rates received, and fees charged, on cash-only fund options. It will pay a settlement amount of $120 million. Shine Lawyers also filed a fresh class action against AMP in July ...

ASIC sues Diversa for First Guardian failures

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
... interests of its members. It allegedly failed to exercise due diligence in developing, offering and reviewing investment options, as well as do all things necessary to ensure the financial services covered by its AFSL were provided efficiently, honestly ...