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ART inks mandate with Zurich

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2025
Zurich Australia is set to take on a major mandate from Australian Retirement Trust (ART) to provide insurance for its Super Savings members. ART confirmed it has entered final contract negotiations with Zurich to take over the group insurance mandate ...

Trade war could have positive impact on Aussie GDP: PC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2025
New modelling from the Productivity Commission (PC) in its annual Trade and Assistance Review (TAR) shows that proposed US trade policy measures will have a marginal direct impact on the Australian economy, but the risks and uncertainty they bring may ...

AustralianSuper's MySuper option returns 9.5%

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2025
... said that delivering "this strong result for members is pleasing". For their default options, Australian Retirement Trust (ART) made 11.2% p.a. while HESTA returned 10.2% p.a. Aware Super delivered a return of 11.9% p.a. and Vanguard Super's default ...

Local assets help deliver 12% for ART

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
Homegrown investments helped bolster returns for Australian Retirement Trust (ART) in the 2025 financial year, with some options achieving nearly 12% p.a. The $313 billion super fund with 2.43 million members delivered 11.2% p.a. for its Balanced option ...

Finance news foretells stock market volatility: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
Daily financial news can better predict stock market volatility and deliver more accurate signals about risk than backward-looking macroeconomic data, a new study suggests. University of Auckland finance lecturer Justin J. Case and Queensland University ...

Chalmers opens economic reform consultation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has opened the new economic reform consultation paper while issuing more invitations to the government's Economic Reform Roundtable. "The roundtable is an important opportunity to build consensus for long term economic reform," ...

ClearView welcomes underwriting head

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
ClearView has hired from NobleOak to fill the position of head of underwriting. The life insurer also rolled out a slew of underwriting updates across its medical requirements and trauma definitions. Peter Tilocca has joined as the new head of underwriting ...

Talent exodus hits Zenith, Lonsec and Evidentia

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
Zenith Investment Partners will see the departure of its lead consultant, highlighting the intensifying battle for experienced asset consultants. Zenith lead consultant Steve Tang is understood to have joined colleague Ben Davis at Ascalon Capital. ...

Super moves: PE exec quits Future Fund for ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
One of Future Fund's top managers has left to join Australian Retirement Trust as a portfolio manager within the private equity team. Anika Choudhury has left Australia's sovereign wealth fund where she started out a senior analyst nearly five ...

Hollywood actors lobby pension fund to dump fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
More than 200 actors have signed an open letter to the trustees of the SAG-Producers Pension Plan asking it to divest from fossil fuels and redirect the assets into responsible investments. Members of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation ...