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AMP shareholders approve executive pay

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... and over half of those receiving advice on retirement income projection, a retirement income score and their general age pension entitlements."

Northern Trust survey reveals what's testing asset owners

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... internal and external, they expect to face in the coming year. The study canvassed responses from senior leaders from pension funds, multi-managers, outsourced chief investment officers, family offices, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments across North ...

Future Group positions super offerings for growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025
... and 15% in Sustainable Moderate. Overall, they will go from paying $781.50 a year for the product to $687.43. Meantime, pension members will be able to invest across the Sustainable Moderate, Sustainable Balanced Growth, Sustainable Growth options, or ...

WTW promotes local staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
WTW, the pension consultant, has hired a new head of portfolio design lead and made a series of local promotions following annual performance reviews. Sasha Loutcheva joins from Russell Investments, where she spent three years as a senior asset allocation ...

US pension funds haemorrhage US$249bn

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
The 25 largest state and local pension investment funds in the US have lost an estimated US$249 billion in public equities, according to the Equable Institute. The institute, which is a bipartisan nonprofit, said most of the damage occurred over the ...

Paying more fees doesn't speed up superannuation death benefit payouts

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... on a $50,000 balance. Yet it ranked only fourth in processing speed for death benefit payments. This pattern holds in pension products too. Avanteos, again one of the fastest trustees, charged "a low" $100 in administration fees on a $50,000 balance ...

ASIC asks for input on reportable situations, IDR dashboards

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... paid to complainants as a remedy. The top three products for superannuation complaints were superannuation account (73%), pension (11%), and death benefit (5%). The top three issues were service-related issues (26%), delay in following instructions (12%) ...

Data centres 'major growth sector' for Australia: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
... centres was only strengthening in Australia, pointing to the example of the sale of AirTrunk by Blackstone to the Canadian Pension Plan Investment board in 2024. "[The sale] cemented data centres as a major growth sector for Australia, and momentum has ...

Super for housing would benefit 4% of homebuyers: ASFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... on younger Australians," Schubert said in response. "And if people retire with less super, that will also push up Age Pension costs - a bill that every Australian taxpayer would pay."

EQT closes flagship infra fund at $37bn

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
... investing in related fields, the firm said. The commitments were contributed by a slew of institutional investors, including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, asset managers and insurance companies across the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the ...