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Retirement confidence highest since 2020: SSGA

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... personal financial management and global macroeconomic uncertainty." Shead reinforced that many Australians are altering their plans in the face of uncertainty. "In response, we are observing that a third of Australians have changed their outlook on ...

Superhero plans 'mass affluent' wealth play

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
Superhero has welcomed its first chief investment officer, as it targets Australians seeking sophisticated solutions without the need for advice. Superhero said it is looking to "evolve beyond traditional sharetrading to offer sophisticated portfolio ...

ASIC blasts managed funds' poor compliance plans

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
... internal dispute resolution processes and reporting (IDR), an ASIC review found, warning that such inadequate compliance plans indicate governance failings. The 50 REs examined operate 45% of all registered funds and hold about $1 trillion in assets. ...

Regal Partners charts US expansion

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... high demand for such a product, given demographic changes, the phasing out of bank hybrids and the federal government's plans to tax unrealised gains within high superannuation balances," O'Connor said. "Importantly, this type of multi-strategy product ...

UK treasury provides guidance on local pension consolidation

MATT TOLEDO  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... report's release follows the signing of the Mansion House Accord earlier this month, in which 17 UK defined contribution plans agreed to increase their alternative investment allocations to 10% of their portfolios, with at least half coming through ...

Greenwashing remains an enforcement priority: ASIC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
The country's financial services regulator unveils its 'capacity building' plans as sustainability reporting becomes a mandatory requirement for small to large Australian businesses - but it was its passing update on greenwashing as an enforcement ...

Nest drops $930m into new IFM Investors fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... economy... and we look forward to co-creating more opportunities on behalf of our members." The investment aligns with Nest's plans to boost its private markets portfolio in line with the UK's Mansion House Accord, which it signed earlier this month. ...

Equip Super, TelstraSuper terminate merger plans

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... the best financial interests of the fund's members," TelstraSuper said. It's quite an about-face, as the merger plans were well progressed; the two had already decided on the combined funds' leadership team, and TelstraSuper's chief investment ...

Daniel Mulino takes over financial services portfolio

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... a period of renewal and reform," she said. "We look forward to consulting with Dr Mulino to ensure that the government's plans to widen the range of sanctions available to the Tax Practitioners Board will be fit-for-purpose and right sized. "We will ...

Super funds put foot down on Woodside

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
... that Woodside has no formalised net zero target, that its scope 3 target lacks ambition, and that current decarbonisation plans are too reliant on offsets. Looking forward, the company's decarbonisation pathway post 2030 appears unclear, and we urge ...