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UK treasury provides guidance on local pension consolidation

MATT TOLEDO  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... Pension Schemes Bill, expected to be introduced this summer. The deadline for local government pension scheme asset pooling is March 2026. According to the Pension Investment Review, the Pension Scheme Bill could give the government reserve power to ...

Quality over quantity: CareSuper on mergers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... industry, MIESF has recently struggled with declining member accounts and cash flows, made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. In March, CareSuper and MIESF confirmed the merger would go ahead, citing their shared member-first heritage and the value members ...

Greenwashing remains an enforcement priority: ASIC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... four reports to the regulator, namely its annual financial report, the directors report, the auditor's report and, from March 2026 next year for Group 1 entities, a sustainability report. Under a phasing in system, Group 2 and Group 3 entities will ...

BlackRock to list its first active ETF in Australia

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... counterpart DYNF, which has achieved a 10.8% return over the past year and a 19.4% annualised return over five years to March end. It has some US$17.4 billion in assets under management. BlackRock head of investments for enhanced factors Philip Hodges ...

Industry funds feast, retail funds snack, corporate funds freefall

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... billion, according to the prudential regulator. Self-managed super funds (SMSFs), meanwhile, banked $26.1 billion, as of 31 March 2025. Industry funds command $1.49 trillion, retail funds hold $798.3 billion, corporate funds, which have reduced to four ...

COVID 'masked' issues at core of productivity problem: PC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... pandemic led to a "productivity bubble", in which measured labour productivity rose to a record high between January 2020 and March 2022 before returning to pre-pandemic levels in June 2023, the Productivity Commission (PC) has revealed. New research ...

La Trobe debuts first ASX-listed investment product

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
... provides another strategic funding option. La Trobe ranked among the top wholesale fund managers by net flows over the year to March 31, according to Rainmaker Information. Only Metrics recorded higher net flows outside ETF heavyweights Betashares, BlackRock ...

New gigs for Qantas Super execs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... Three Qantas Super executives have landed in new roles following the merger of the fund with Australian Retirement Trust in March. This is in addition to the appointment of Qantas Super boss Michael Clancy to the top investment job at REST Super. Clancy ...

Age-based super strategies could add thousands to retirement savings

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... MySuper solution, GoalTracker, to the superannuation industry's MySuper options, using Chant West data, over the five years to March 2025. It calculated that 14.5 million MySuper accounts would've achieved an average retirement savings uplift of 6.6% ...

Super funds back $9.6bn homegrown platform

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... and to empower businesses everywhere to grow without limits." Airwallex has achieved immense growth in recent years. As at March 2024, the platform has US$720 million ($1.1bn) in annualised revenue, a surge of 90% year-on-year, and exceeded US$130 billion ...