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Another industry body urges Division 296 reconsideration

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2025
... especially for small business owners and farmers who hold illiquid assets like real property in their self-managed super funds. "There's a strong possibility a member could be cumulatively taxed on investments that ultimately make an overall loss ...

Geopolitics, AI tests prudential regulation: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2025
... turbulence," the report said. Under Prudential Standard CPS 230 Operational Resilience, which came into effect on July 1, super funds must factor in how they address geopolitical risks. As for AI, APRA sees it as "both a risk and an opportunity." "There ...

ASIC takes aim at super, private markets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2025
... APRA to inform further work in this area," Constant said. "Now with more than 100,000 Australians retiring each year, super funds need to do better." Constant added that ASIC has a multi-year project underway to drive a step-change in the way trustees ...

Salary report shows 23% pay gap for top BDMs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2025
... Kaizen report stated. By contrast, openings in institutional distribution have slowed due to fund mergers and more super funds insourcing investment mandates. When survey respondents were asked why they would change jobs, 82% said it's for the salary ...

Brighter Super to add 68k new members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2025
... benefiting all members of the fund." APRA's June data shows there are just 92 insurance-only products offered by super funds, hosting about 724,000 member accounts.

Super funds break records, inactive accounts balloon

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2025
... have $18.3 billion, $16.6 billion and $14.8 billion respectively in active accounts - the highest among the retail super funds. In the 12 months to June, total superannuation assets rose nearly 10% to $4.3 trillion. Industry super funds jumped 15% to ...

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 ...