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Cbus, Rest deliver 'strong' returns amid heightened volatility

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2025
... Index Diversified investment option returned 11.68%. Early indications show that Cbus Super will likely remain one of the top five performing super funds over 10-, 15- and 20-year periods, the fund said. Its default option has achieved an average annual ...

LGT Crestone promotes investment duo

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... strategic and tactical portfolio positioning. Reporting to the firm's investment chief Scott Haslem, Tan will manage the top-down asset allocation and investment strategy part of LGT Crestone's investment, product and services team. He brings ...

Janus Henderson finalises strategic partnership with life insurer

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... investment grade public fixed income portfolio. The partnership was initially announced in April, positioning Janus Henderson as a top 15 unaffiliated insurance asset manager, managing over US$109 billion ($166bn) for global insurance companies and over ...

HESTA returns 10.18% to members

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... fund's default investment option - where most members are invested - has averaged an annual return of 7.64% and ranked in the top quartile over five, seven and 10 years. Among other super investment options, Indexed Balanced Growth, High Growth and ...

Improved economy not a guarantee of business success

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... are also dragging down business optimism. Alongside margin and profit fears, an inability to execute strategies remains the top issue, with 62% identifying this as a significant risk. "Meanwhile, technology implementation and digital disruption (48%) ...

AMP Super delivers double digit returns in FY25

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
... 11.2% respectively. Further, its range of Future Directions choice funds also performed well, with High Growth delivering the top return of 14.1% over the same period among the three options available. Balanced returned 11.0%, while Growth delivered ...

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," ...

Average super balance grows to $172k: ATO

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
... residents made $255,901 on average while Woollahra residents earned $242,267. Victoria's Toorak and Hawksburn were the fourth top-earning suburbs with $241,511. Surgeons continue to be the highest-paid occupation with the 4247 individuals reporting ...

Super funds, banks say cybersecurity is now their biggest concern

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
APRA's 2025 Stakeholder Survey shows that cyber security risk has emerged as the topmost concern in financial services. The survey, which gathered responses from 262 financial institutions, revealed that the threat of cyber security was listed as a ...