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Super funds break records, inactive accounts balloon

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2025
As superannuation fund assets continue to hit record highs, with AustralianSuper leading the pack at $387.6 billion, the number of inactive accounts is also ballooning, APRA's latest statistics reveal. APRA superannuation fund data for June 2025 ...

Cbus welcomes new head of risk transformation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
Cbus has welcomed Sandra Burns in the newly created role of group head of risk transformation. Cbus said Burns will lead the fund's enterprise-wide risk transformation program, designing, implementing and embedding Cbus' approach to risk. Burns will ...

InterPrac wants super funds' reserves to remediate Shield, First Guardian victims

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
InterPrac Financial Planning wants to rid itself of remediation obligations regarding the collapse of the Shield Master Fund and First Guardian Master Fund, saying that victims should be "fully compensated" via superannuation funds' reserves. InterPrac ...

ASIC, APRA outline regulatory reform opportunities

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) have outlined opportunities for regulatory reform in letters sent to Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher. APRA  ...

Super funds test cybersecurity resilience

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
Still reeling from the coordinated cyberattack in April, superannuation funds will test their cybersecurity resilience and see what lessons they have learned under a drill provided by the Gateway Network Governance Body (GNGB). Taking place on Thursday ...

Three retirement products achieve double-digit returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
The retirement products of two industry superannuation funds and a corporate plan achieved double-digit returns of 10% p.a. or more over the last three years, a new analysis from Rainmaker Information shows. UniSuper's Pension Balanced option and ANZ ...

Life insurers double earnings in FY25

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2025
Life insurers' earnings have more than doubled to $360 million in the 2025 financial year, according to the latest APRA figures. While revenue only rose 1% year on year to $5.9 billion, profit after income tax jumped by 210% to $116 million. Investment ...

AMP, Insignia, Bendigo products fail super performance test

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
AMP, Insignia Financial and Bendigo SmartStart are the only superannuation fund providers whose platform trustee-directed products (TDP) failed APRA's latest performance test. Only seven out of the 563 products that APRA tested failed in its latest ...

Powerwrap drags Praemium performance, SMAs shine

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2025
Praemium's separately managed accounts (SMA) business reported $610 million of net inflows while Powerwrap's outflows topped $299 million for the 2025 financial year. In addition to the SMA business, total funds under administration (FUA) was ...

APRA sets higher cybersecurity expectations for trustees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
Trustees' cyber-resilience is riding high on APRA's enforcement agenda over the next four years, but in the short term the regulator warned it will escalate action where necessary if they cannot prove to have basic measures in place. The prudential ...