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State Super offloads investment team to Frontier Advisors

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
State Super will outsource its investment team to Frontier Advisors and as part of the deal, the government superannuation fund will take a 23% stake in the industry super fund-backed asset consultant. The two organisations described the arrangement ...

ASIC raises alarm on auditor independence, conflicts of interest

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
Too many auditors are failing the independence test and breaching conflicts of interest obligations, according to an ASIC investigation. A review of 15 audit firms saw nine did not meet rotation requirements while five of them had "relevant relationships" ...

Liquidity, operational shocks major issues for super: RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has released its Financial Stability Review, highlighting that building resilience to severe liquidity and operations shocks must remain a priority for superannuation funds. "Superannuation funds now account for around ...

Lorica Partners, Multiforte Financial Services merge

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2025
Financial advice firm Lorica Partners is merging with Multiforte Financial Services, uniting the two companies under the Lorica Partners brand. Multiforte's clients will continue working with existing advisers for the next 12 months, as the staff ...

Super funds must improve reporting, audits: ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2025
Registrable superannuation entities (RSEs) must do more to ensure asset valuations in financial reports are reliable and improve disclosure of sponsorship and advertising expenses. Those are two key outcomes of an ASIC review into the financial reporting ...

Draft laws for insurers' ban on use of genetic test results released

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
Treasury opened consultation on draft legislation to ban life insurers' use of genetic test results in underwriting. The release of the draft legislation follows the government's announcement in September 2024 that it would implement a total ban, following ...

Retirees should put 80% of balance into annuities: Grattan

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
Grattan Institute has recommended changes to help simplify the superannuation system, including pushing for retirees to place 80% of their super balance into an annuity, possibly offered by the government itself. In its submission to the Treasury consultation ...

Alternative Investment Awards winners announced

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
Last night at the 24 th Annual Hedge Funds Rock fundraising dinner, the Alternative Future Foundation (AFF) announced the winners of its Australian Alternative Investment Awards for 2025. In addition to 11 categories, the awards also recognise a Fund ...

National decline in retirement confidence: AMP

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2025
AMP has launched Retirement Confidence Pulse, a new barometer to measure how financially confident Australians feel about life after work. The inaugural score is a concerning 50/100. Amidst a cost-of-living crisis and spikes in household expenses, the ...

Age Pension to increase on September 20

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2025
The Age Pension is increasing tomorrow, while previously frozen deeming rates will rise by 0.5%. From tomorrow, September 20, the Age Pension will increase by $29.70 a fortnight for singles and $44.80 for couples combined. This will see singles receive ...