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HESTA calls for reforms to help women in retirement

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... with wage rises and the cost of living. HESTA said this would allow retirees to work more without impacting their Age Pension. "The lift to the super guarantee and paying super on Commonwealth Paid Parental Leave are fantastic steps to strengthen Australia's ...

Rest boosts impact, sustainability investments

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
... more sustainable future. As at June 30, Rest has approximately 1.5 million members who will become eligible for the Age Pension in 2050 or later. "We believe decarbonisation will continue to influence the global economy and society for many decades to ...

Special feature: Shaping private markets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... interest rate directions, or their own expectations. "That kind of rigour is crucial in Australia, which has the only pension system of its scale where members can easily switch funds-and one of the highest allocations to private markets," he says. Regulators ...

Octopus awarded $1bn mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
Octopus Australia has announced a partnership with APG Asset Management, a Dutch pension fund investor with assets under management exceeding $1 trillion (€590 billion). As part of the partnership, APG intends to commit over $1 billion to Octopus ...

REI Super delivers double-digit returns in FY25

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
... professionals, has returned 10.34% in its MySuper option for the year ended 30 June 2025. Over the same period its balanced pension option achieved 11.40%, while the Growth Plus and Growth options saw returns of 14.20% and 12.52%, respectively. Meanwhile ...

Federated Hermes 'not far away' from launching Australian wholesale products

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
... Selman believes that the leverage of its stewardship business with superannuation funds, alongside Australia's dynamic pension industry, presents a unique opportunity in retirement income products. "There's a very sophisticated pension industry ...

AustralianSuper taps NYC pension deputy CIO

MATT TOLEDO  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
... Tuesday. Kądziela was previously deputy CIO and head of private equity of the New York City Retirement Systems, five pension funds that serve the city's public employees. The five funds, overseen by the comptroller, manage $288.59 billion, as of the ...

Prime Super delivers double-digit returns

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2025
... Prime Super said the strong result highlights the benefits of its investment strategy and focus on growth assets. In the pension phase, Prime Super's Balanced option returns sit at 12.08% and Managed Growth delivered 14.68% achieving first quartile returns. ...

Macquarie AM closes $6bn European infra strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2025
... with an additional €2.3 billion ($4.1bn) raised from separately managed accounts. Designed for insurance companies and pension fund investors, MEID invests into high quality infrastructure debt assets aligned to Solvency II regulations, Macquarie AM ...

Alternatives stable pushes Navigator assets higher

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2025
... that had just one limited partner client. If it had one investor, one big Australian superannuation, one big American pension fund, the client concentration risk would be so high that that business wouldn't be one that would have a sustainable, risk-adjusted ...