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Feature: Group insurance | Cold comfort

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... benefit payout. The growing challenges around the sustainability of TPD insurance and rising claims have led many super funds to increase premiums in recent years, further fuelling sustainability concerns. Delay, delay, delay ASIC's review of death ...

ASIC slaps MWL adviser with ban over Shield involvement

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... misleading Statements of Advice, including representations that Shield had a higher performing track record against other super funds when Shield had only been in existence for a short period. As a result, ASIC believes Spooner is not a fit and proper ...

AustralianSuper pumps $1.1bn into fresh UK investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
... infrastructure and critical nation-building investments into the UK, and strengthen relationships between Australian super funds and UK institutional investors and policy makers. AustralianSuper deputy chief investment officer Damian Moloney said the ...

Why mid-sized super funds still matter: Farrar

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025
... consolidation continues across the superannuation sector, there remains a strong role for differentiated mid-sized super funds, according to Brighter Super. Kate Farrar, chief executive at Brighter Super, told the Innovation in Retirement conference ...

Super funds to double UK, EU investments over next decade

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
Australian super funds are expected to more than double their investments in the UK and Europe over the next decade, reaching around $660 billion. A report commissioned by IFM Investors and Super Members Council, and produced by Mandala Partners, noted ...

Rest Super team defects to Channel Capital

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... investment operations, governance, and risk. Before her nearly six years at Rest Super, one of Australia's largest super funds, she worked at JANA Investment Advisors, NAB Asset Management and UBS. Sirois has led ODD work across hedge funds, private ...

Early release of super for dental, IVF spikes in FY25

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... for medical reasons, including treatment and transport, in FY25. Of this, a whopping $817.6 million was paid out by super funds following an approved application for early release for dental reasons. This represents a significant increase from the previous ...

Feature: Compliance | Passing the buck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... attraction for people who want to do wrong. There were a lot of conflicts of interest with everybody involved; some of the super funds, the advice businesses, the research houses, the lead generators, which likely prevented people from exercising the ...

Australian super funds 'important' for the UK economy

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
... will be held in London (day one) and Birmingham (day two) - will gather senior executives from various Australian super funds and their UK counterparts, along with members of the UK government, civil servants and regulators, to discuss the growing partnership ...

Morningstar calls out platform TDPs' use of rebates

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025
... sharp decrease from the 37 failures recorded in the year prior. APRA already pointed out that it was aware of how some super funds were using fee rebates when it published the latest results. While fee rebates are generally positive for members, APRA ...