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Perpetual IM switches member admin provider

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
Perpetual Investment Management has awarded MUFG Pension & Market Services (MPMS) a mandate to oversee its investor and member administration services. MUFG Corporate Markets will provide services across unlisted registry, listed registry, corporate ...

Old challenges push asset managers to inflection point: Citi

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... alongside to drive up costs. End-clients have been demanding new products, especially in the ESG space (45%)," the report read. "Digitally savvy self-directed investors need superior tech-enabled client experience (42%). Tighter regulatory oversight ...

Australia progresses climate transition disclosures, planning

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... low, discouraging clean-tech investment and reducing incentives for companies to take action in the near term," the report read. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) categorises fossil-fuel subsidies into explicit and implicit forms. Explicit subsidies ...

New SMSF industry body launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
The SMSF Innovation Council has launched to provide the SMSF sector with education, advocacy and a best-practice framework to help navigate the digital assets landscape. Chaired by Kate Cooper, the initiative is focused on collaborating and sharing ...

Small industry super funds beat giants on trust, service, value

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... super funds, across both industry and retail segments, had higher engagement, with their communications more likely to be read. Disengaged members pointed to a lack of interest and boring content as the main reasons they don't read communications from ...

Pacific workers face barriers to claiming super: University

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
Financial experts are calling on the government to simplify the process for Pacific and Timor-Leste workers that come to Australia under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme to access unclaimed superannuation once their visa expires ...

Australian Ethical, CEFC pour $30m into climate tech venture

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
Responsible investor Australian Ethical and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) have each committed $15 million into the first close of the new fund curated by Climate Tech Partners (CTP). CTP is a local climate venture platform deploying capital ...

ASIC reads the riot act to the super industry: Longo

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
ASIC chair Joe Longo has hailed the superannuation industry's $4.1 trillion war chest, which is larger than the ASX's total market capitalisation, as an impressive achievement. But for all its size and influence, Longo reinforced at the AmCham Regulator ...

Investors face headwinds in integrating physical climate risks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
While investors are increasingly factoring physical climate risks into their decision making, there are several challenges to doing so, a review of public funds' experience has found. A new report from CPP Investments and thinktank OMFIF looks at how ...

Super funds' private market assets grow to $400bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... higher risk-adjusted returns, which suggests they have captured a return premium for investing in these assets," the paper read.