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Preparing earlier boosts average super balance by over $250k: Brighter Super

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2025
... Brighter Super said. "This reinforces the need for flexible planning - with clear options that allow members to adjust when life happens," the report said. Meanwhile, the Brighter Super Ready for Retirement Index (RRI) rose to 58 points in 2025, up from ...

Women in Super announces new board line-up

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025
... Retirement Trust while Janssen is the founder of Estate First Lawyers. Women in Super also announced Melissa Birks as its newest life member. Birks is a former deputy chief executive of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees. She joins Louise ...

TelstraSuper exec joins CFA Society board

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025
TelstraSuper's acting chief investment officer was elected to the CFA Society Australia board last Thursday. Kate Misic will succeed former Aware Super chief investment officer Damian Graham, who has stepped down from the board. Misic brings more ...

Super moves: HESTA, Nest, Resolution Life, NZ Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025
... £50bn in assets on behalf of 13+ million members." Elsewhere, investment strategist Madeleine Barrow has left Resolution Life Australasia for HESTA, following Resolution Life's merger with MLC Life Insurance to form Acenda. Barrow most recently ...

Life insurers to up external fund manager mandates: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
A large proportion of investment teams within life insurance firms say they will increase their reliance on external fund managers over the next five years, a new survey finds. Funds management technology platform Clearwater Analytics canvassed 150 ...

Challenger to take on TelstraSuper pension product

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2025
... Lifetime Pension was designed in partnership with Challenger with built-in protections to ensure capital lasted for a members' life expectancy. The group insurance policy that underpins the product is issued by Challenger Life. TelstraSuper assured members ...

Comfortable retirement requires $432k in super: SCA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2025
... as $423,000. For many people this is good news - by knowing your Retirement Super Target you can balance your quality of life now with your quality of life in retirement," said Ellis. SCA will release its Retirement Savings Targets for Renters report ...

Royal London AM launches four new funds locally

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2025
... the UK and select international locations and is part of the Royal London Mutual Insurance Society, the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company. The firm entered the Australian market in 2017, but this marks the first time it has launched ...

ASIC suspends Newcastle advice firm's AFSL over missing key person

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... more than two years without a key person. FFA was established in 2003 and provides financial services around superannuation, life insurance, retirement planning, estate planning and wealth creation. The ownership of FFA's AFSL changed in 2023 following ...

Financially savvy Australians can add $1.2tn to wealth: Research

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
New research has found that if all Australians were to reach a level of advanced financial capability, it could uplift aggregate household wealth by $1.2 trillion, equal to $122,950 per household. The Big Lift report by Deloitte in collaboration with ...