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Benchmark-clinging passive investors risk meagre returns: Perpetual

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
Perpetual head of investment strategy Matt Sherwood has warned that passive investors banking on a repeat of the past 15 years of very strong global equity returns may be sleepwalking into a decade of disappointment. Sherwood said the past decade of ...

Vision Super defends new but 'archaic' policy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
Vision Super has defended a policy not to share member information to anyone it believes are located offshore, however the way in which the fund allegedly determines the location of an individual has caused a stir. Lifestyle Solutions Financial Planning's ...

HESTA sells out of MinRes after failed engagement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
HESTA divested its remaining shareholding in Mineral Resources (MinRes) following the resignation of the miner's entire ethics and governance committee just six months after it was established. The $89 billion fund put MinRes on watch in October last ...

'Lunatic' tariffs can directly hit Australia: Academics

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
Australia can get hurt by US President Donald Trump's 'incoherent' and 'lunatic' tariff policies that appear to have no logic or endgame if China's economy experiences a drastic slowdown, academics say. Australian National University ...

US financial market dominance can't last indefinitely: MSCI

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
The US stock market has returned nearly twice as much as international markets since the Global Financial Crisis, which subsequently resulted in its share of global equity market capitalisation approaching almost 70% by the end of last year. History ...

Ascent Investment mastermind cops 33 criminal charges

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
Michael Dunjey, the mastermind behind a $149 million alleged Ponzi scheme, has been charged with 33 criminal offences. On May 9, the Perth Magistrates Court charged Dunjey, the director of Ascent Investment and Coaching, with 23 counts of fraud under ...

HESTA members to keep paying fees as disruption continues

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
HESTA members currently in the midst of an extended limited services period will not see a pause or reduction applied to their administration fees, the fund confirmed. The $89 billion fund is currently transitioning to GROW Inc. (GROW) for its administration ...

ART extends exclusions in Socially Conscious option

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
Australian Retirement Trust (ART) will extend its list of exclusions for the Socially Conscious Balanced option to also apply to direct investments in listed corporate-issued debt in fixed income investments. The change, which comes into effect July ...

Reducing super tax cap to $2m 'a concern': FAAA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) chief executive Sarah Abood has voiced concerns about the future of Div 296, given Labor's overwhelming victory at the federal election. The proposed 30% tax on superannuation balances above $3 million could ...

HCF Life fined $750k for misleading contract term

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
HCF Life Insurance has been fined $750,000 by the Federal Court for misleading the public about a pre-existing condition term under its Recover products. Last October, the court ruled the term would deny coverage if a customer did not disclose a pre-existing ...
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