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State Street Global Advisors rebrands

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
State Street Global Advisors has announced its new brand name: State Street Investment Management. SSIM said the rebranding highlights the firm's focus on growth and engagement with clients and partners, and its commitment to product innovation ...

Union redundancy funds in ASIC's sights

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... to seek feedback on whether the Corporations Act should apply to trade union redundancy funds. Consultation Paper 384, Employee redundancy funds, will seek feedback on whether ASIC should have the power to regulate the multi-billion-dollar funds, which ...

Life insurer chief executives step down, successor named

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
Acenda Group is set to welcome a group chief executive, as Kent Griffin and Tim Tez announce their departures. Former Westpac executive Chris de Bruin has been appointed chief executive of Acenda Group, subject to regulatory approvals of the merger ...

ART makes sweeping changes to corporate super plans

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
Australian Retirement Trust (ART) has made an array of changes to several corporate superannuation plans it manages, including shuttering one. The Tiffany & Co. Superannuation Plan has closed as of June 20 with members transferred to a Super Savings ...

TAL partners to expand access to affordable insurance

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
The life insurer has today launched backd by TAL in partnership with Cover Genius, targeting those with limited access to affordable cover options. backd offers tailored, affordable options for workers not currently eligible for other types of cover ...

Super tax requires a 'holistic' review: ASA

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
The Australian Shareholders' Association (ASA) is urging the federal government to reconsider the proposed terms on the Division 296 superannuation tax. The super tax has received mixed opinions since its announcement, but the Labor government has insisted ...

Government to convene a productivity roundtable

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced at the National Press Club yesterday that Treasurer Jim Chalmers will convene a roundtable in August to support and shape the government's growth and productivity agenda. Albanese said the roundtable will bring ...

SS&C lands mandate from local boutique fund services provider

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
SS&C Technologies has been awarded a mandate by a boutique fund services provider to investment managers in Australia to support its fund services operations. Fundhost, which has $2 billion in assets under management, provides responsible entity, trustee ...

Minimum wage to rise 3.5%

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
The National Minimum Wage and all modern award minimum wage rates will increase by 3.5% on July 1. The minimum wage is currently $24.10 an hour and, following the Fair Work Commission's decision today, will rise to $24.95 an hour. This equates to a ...

Quality over quantity: CareSuper on mergers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... and in 2014 with Quadrant. Then, in 2015, it merged with RBF Tasmanian Accumulation Scheme, followed by the Fairbrother Employee Retirement Fund in 2018. Meantime, CareSuper had previously merged with Asset Super in 2012, and gobbled up Perpetual's ...