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Majority reject crypto investments in super fund: Swyftx

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
Australians do not want their super invested in digital assets, despite some super funds and overseas pension funds dipping their toes in. According to Swyftx's fifth Annual Australian Crypto Survey, based on a survey of some 3009 Australian adults ...

Colonial First State, AIA agree $140m class action settlement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... other providers. This allegedly occurred between 2014 and 2022, impacting some members of FirstChoice Personal Super and Pension, FirstChoice Wholesale Personal Super and Pension, FirstChoice Employer Super and Commonwealth Essential Super. Today, Shine ...

Damian Graham jumps to Challenger

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... former was selected by Aware Super to provide a $619 million group lifetime annuity policy to de-risk some of its lifetime pension liabilities. Challenger was selected as it was well placed to meet the needs of Aware Super's defined benefit members ...

Feature: Retirement | The right mix

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... the Annuity Puzzle, Huppert notes that Treasury's Retirement Income Review (RIR) found that 83% of accounts in the pension phase were invested in account-based pensions that do not manage the risk of running out of money in retirement. "FORO leads ...

AustralianSuper expands executive lineup

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2025
... said the changes reflect the fund's ambitious agenda. "AustralianSuper is not only one of the world's 20 largest pension funds, but also one of the fastest growing among them. Members rightly expect their retirement savings to be managed by a ...

Ironbark partners to offer global quantitative equity capabilities

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2025
... capabilities. Intech brings nearly four decades of global quantitative equity research in Stochastic Portfolio Theory for pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, and more, the firm said. Unlike conventional stock-picking or factor investing ...

Ex Rest Super exec takes on regional gig

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2025
... he will provide strategic thought leadership in the asset owner space while working with executives at superannuation, pension and sovereign wealth funds across the region. Leck has spent much of his career in superannuation, asset management and treasury ...

Canadian pension giant sued over alleged climate failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
Four young Canadians are suing the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, claiming the fund breached its duty to invest in their interests by failing to protect their retirement savings from climate risk. The plaintiffs, Aliya Hirji, Travis Olson, Rav ...

US pension funds move against James Hardie chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2025
Three US pension funds have lodged proxy votes to remove Anne Lloyd as James Hardie chair at the company's AGM this week. This comes after James Hardie faced significant backlash over a $14 billion deal to acquire US-based Azek. A deal that was done ...

Macquarie to shed more than 240 investment options

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... funds that invest across a myriad of asset classes "to new investments and all automated plans for superannuation and pension." About one quarter of these are ETFs managed by Betashares, Global X and VanEck. The lion's share are actively managed ...