Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 271 - 280 of 4796 results for "super funds"

Large penalties against super funds are appropriate: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
ASIC commissioner Simone Constant told Financial Standard that many super fund trustees have taken accountability for not meeting their requirements to members, know they need to improve and accept the penalties that are brought against them. However ...

New SMSF trustees drive financial advice uptake

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2025
Trustees of newly established self-managed super funds (SMSFs) are behind a surge in the uptake of financial advice, according to a Vanguard/Investment Trends SMSF report. The report, while showing that adviser influence is growing in new SMSF set-ups ...

ASIC tells super: 'You have everything you need to not fail'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2025
ASIC commissioner Simone Constant has told Financial Standard the regulator has super funds in its sights for more than just claims handling delays. "The main focus is on member services more generally, this is a multi-year phased project" Constant ...

Responsible investing buoyed by instos: RIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2025
... RIAA's members currently represent more than 75% of the professionally managed assets in Australia. "The 13 largest super funds in Australia are now part of RIAA's membership and attending this year's conference. RIAA's certification ...

Age-based super strategies could add thousands to retirement savings

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... "stronger engagement and smarter decisions" around contributions, investments, and retirement timing. It added that super funds have a powerful role to play in improving long-term outcomes, whether by supporting better contribution habits or managing ...

Super funds back $9.6bn homegrown platform

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... contributed to a US$300 million ($466 million) capital raise for a Melbourne-found global financial platform. The two super funds were some of the lead investors in a Series F funding round run by Airwallex. Airwallex, valued at US$6.2 billion ($9.6bn) ...

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 ...