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Rest lands new chief investment officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... and regulatory environment, along with broader superannuation industry trends, including the decline of corporate super funds. Prior to Qantas Super, he spent over 14 years at National Australia Bank (NAB), serving as chief executive of MLC's asset management ...

Wealth management has never looked better: Knox

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... active managers are dying a death domestically because of all the in-housing of assets under management by industry super funds. So, asset management is tough, and ETFs are doing well." He said, when you then look at the advice sector, advisers are making ...

Vanguard Super leads in organic growth: KPMG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... with their market share rising by 1.8% - from 38.2% to 40%. Industry fund growth came at the expense of self-managed super funds (SMSFs), which shrank from 24.5% to 22.7%. Over the past five years, industry funds have "gained significant momentum," KPMG ...

Zenith to farewell co-founder, managing director

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... organisations, and a belief that together, we can create a really compelling, premium service for advisers, fund managers, super funds and institutional clients." Zenith thanked Wright and Huddy for their contributions to the business. "Both David and ...

Super funds covet more global equities: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... equities, the analysis, led by J.P Morgan head of equity research for Australia and New Zealand Jason Steed, shows super funds are collectively underweight in US mega-cap technology stocks or the Magnificent 7. "The growth of super funds' global ...

Relaxed superannuation preservation rules will sink returns: Frontier

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
A Frontier report, commissioned by the Super Members Council, has argued that current preservation rules provide super funds with the flexibility to invest in unlisted assets, and warned that permanently relaxing these rules will decrease long-term ...

Former adviser accused of theft loses lengthy extradition fight

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... Pearson, formerly based in Perth, is accused of having stolen millions of dollars intended for clients' self-managed super funds. She was permanently banned by ASIC in 2015 after it found she engaged in dishonest conduct and in conduct that was misleading ...

SMC highlights long-term benefits of investing in private markets

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
... the policy principles of preservation, universality and compulsion." One of the key benefits of unlisted assets for super funds is that they diversify a portfolio and provide a more stable net return when they are included, especially in the current ...

Chalmers lays down the law on super tax

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... the increased tax rate will also include taxing unrealised gains including assets and shares held in self-managed super funds. Chalmers added that the calculation of unrealised gains exists in other parts of the super system. "It's not unique to ...

TPD claim settlements take 'considerably longer': Rainmaker

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... claims took two weeks to two months, while some 40% were processed in between two to six months. The findings come as super funds make headlines for their systemic failures over death and TPD claims, including ASIC taking legal proceedings against AustralianSuper ...