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Perpetual IM switches member admin provider

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
Perpetual Investment Management has awarded MUFG Pension & Market Services (MPMS) a mandate to oversee its investor and member administration services. MUFG Corporate Markets will provide services across unlisted registry, listed registry, corporate ...

MLC Expand reduces fees

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
The wrap platform has reduced fees for around 65% of all platform clients across Expand Essential and Expand Extra from June 1. The change will see the account keeping fee for Expand Essential drop from $90 to $78 per annum, while the administration ...

ART promotes high-profile retirement specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
... strategy for default accumulation members and looked after the solvency management of the asset pool for the lifetime pension product. The investment professional and actuary has long represented ART as a global industry thought leader in retirement ...

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

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... Colonial First State's FirstChoice Wholesale Retirement Pension. Rest, among the slowest, charged $128 for its pension product. Hostplus charged the highest administration fee for pension products among the trustees ASIC reviewed - $234 on a $50,000 ...

Stockspot officially launches low-cost super offering

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
... that transition seamless, without hidden costs or unnecessary decisions." Stockspot is also looking to launch a pension product later in 2025. "Initially Stockspot will only offer a superannuation product suitable for accumulation members, with a pension ...

HUB24 engulfs ClearView's remaining superannuation business

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2025
... Superannuation and Roll-Overs and ClearView Pension Plan members transferred to the ClearView WealthFoundations Super and Pension product. At the time, 5500 members with approximately $450 million in retirement savings moved across. The now-defunct ClearView ...

How to simplify super to get better retirement outcomes: Mercer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
The superannuation system has lacked a clear direction for the provision of retirement outcomes, and while this is gradually changing, there remains a need to make it simpler for Australians, according to a Mercer report. The Australian retirement income ...

Advice take up falls amid decade-low retirement confidence

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2024
While demand for financial advice is apparently the highest it's ever been, the number of people actually seeking it has dropped. That's according to new research from Brighter Super and Investment Trends that shows retirement confidence among Australians ...

Betashares completes Bendigo Superannuation acquisition

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024
Betashares has finalised its acquisition of Bendigo Superannuation for an undisclosed amount. As of September 1, Betashares was the manager of $1.4 billion of super assets for 19,000 members. Betashares and ASX-listed Bendigo Bank declined to confirm ...

Brighter Super launches Retire Easy Pension

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2024
Brighter Super has introduced the Retire Easy Pension strategy, which involves dividing a member's retirement savings into three distinct buckets. Launching the product last month, Brighter Super said it marks the first stage of the fund's new ...