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Future Fund achieves 12.2% in FY25, tops other instos

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
... The 10.8% allocation to local equities also helped drive performance. Toe to toe with other institutional investors, super funds' balanced options returned 10.1% p.a. on a median basis, according to estimates from SuperRatings. New Zealand's sovereign ...

World's pension market hits $36.9tn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
... only Australian superannuation fund to break the top 20, coming in at number 17 in terms of AUM. The other Australian super funds to make the top 300 list were Australian Retirement Trust, Future Fund, Aware Super, UniSuper, Hostplus, Cbus, Rest, HESTA ...

InterPrac wants super funds' reserves to remediate Shield, First Guardian victims

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... representatives' alleged roles in the loss of $1 billon of investor money. InterPrac managing director Garry Crole said super funds' Operational Risk Financial Requirement (ORFR) should be activated in the same way that victims of Trio Capital were remediated. ...

Schroder urges 'open dialogue' with government

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
... government's job to determine the direction of the country and the services and infrastructure that underpin it. "The job of super funds is to deploy capital into productive investments to bolster members' retirement savings," he said. "Those two competencies ...

Using super as 'piggybank' would be a 'disaster': Schroder

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
... savings should not be treated as a "piggybank". Schroder said it would be a "disaster" for members if governments told super funds what they should invest in. "Members carry the investment risk, and it is their money," Schroder said. "We must break the ...

Super funds test cybersecurity resilience

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
... called Operation Honeybee II will challenge super funds' cybersecurity response across their entire ecosystem. Super funds, including administrators, service providers, regulators and government agencies, will take part in the exercise that will ...

Life insurers double earnings in FY25

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2025
... to turnaround in 2022. Separately, superannuation assets rose 9.8% over the year to June to $4.3 trillion. Industry super funds jumped 15% to $1.6 trillion while retail funds grew 12% to $848.5 billion. Public sector funds made a 6% gain to end up with ...

Alternatives, international equities dominate mandates

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
... and there were a 127 for Australian equities. There were an estimated 55 mandate appointments from not-for-profit super funds and investment managers, 199 model portfolio mandates, four mandates from retail super and three mandates from government agencies ...

ESG labelling could 'destabilise' super system: RIAA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025
... products for members while also driving up costs, it said, explaining that compliance needs and costs would rise. "For super funds, this could divert capital, create unnecessary compliance costs, and weaken global competitiveness at a time when Australia ...

ASIC flags firm grip on private and public markets, super funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
... accountable for Australians' retirement savings. "In late 2024 and early 2025, ASIC initiated court proceedings against two super funds over their claims handling practices. In January 2025, we called out trustees for weak scam and fraud practices. Then ...