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Major super reforms cost members $670m in death benefits: ASFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2026
... (PMIF) reforms result in $670 million in foregone death benefits each year, new research from the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) shows. Seven years since the two pieces of legislation took effect, ASFA estimated about 5000 Australians ...

Morgan Stanley sheds 2500 global roles

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2026
Morgan Stanley is shedding 2500 jobs across its global workforce, affecting many in the investment banking, wealth management and investment management divisions. As first reported overnight by the Wall Street Journal, roles from front office to the ...

Mega-funds grow but net cashflows steadily decline

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2026
The number of superannuation mega-funds increased to 10 in 2025, with their growth being almost entirely organic as their net cashflows decline. Willis Towers Watson's Super Industry 2026 report shows four more super funds joined the mega-fund club ...

NZ Super continues to build investment team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026
... 2020 review of the fund's reference portfolio. She also worked as a senior investment analyst at the Government Superannuation Fund Authority and Westpac NZ, having started her career at AMP Capital Investors.

Iress fills APAC wealth role from within

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026
... succeeding Kelli Willmer, who has left the company after more than a decade. Wall previously ran the group's superannuation division, where where he improved financial performance and managed the sale of the business to Apex Group in January 2025. ...

First Super names interim investment lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026
... for a permanent replacement. Chris Artis, the former chief investment officer of the Meat Industry Employees' Superannuation Fund (MIESF), has joined the industry fund in the temporary role. He left MIESF last October following that fund's merger ...

Treasury proposes options to block victim-survivors' super going to perpetrators

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026
... of domestic and family violence from receiving the super death benefits of their victims. Under current law, a superannuation trustee may be required to pay a death benefit to a person who perpetrated family and domestic violence against the deceased. ...

UniSuper helps raise $30m for PlasmaLeap

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
UniSuper, as part of a consortium, has helped raise $30 million for PlasmaLeap Technologies, a sustainable technology provider for fuel and chemicals producers. The fund raise was led by the Gates Foundation, Investible and Yara Growth Ventures. UniSuper's ...

Big super to work with Canadian counterparts to drive investment

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
Australia's industry super funds and a raft of Canadian pension funds will work together to boost investment in their respective regions. A memorandum of understanding has been signed as part of the Canadian-Australian Pension Funds Investment Initiative ...

Cbus calls for tax reform on TPD payouts in pre-Budget submission

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
Cbus has used its pre-Budget submission to call for clearer, fairer tax settings on total and permanent disability (TPD) insurance payouts for members under 60 years of age. Cbus said such reforms could save workers and their families thousands of dollars ...