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FEATURE | Recruitment: Laying foundations

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2026
... in growth-oriented roles such as heads of growth and member acquisition. She notes a growing focus on the full member lifecycle, from attraction through to retirement, with superannuation providers investing more in education, engagement, and retention ...

AI to maximise returns for super members: Report

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... maximised returns. TAI co-founder Roger Urwin supported the report's findings calling out the automatic investment shifts in lifecycle investment options, saying they may be overly cautious during early career stages when riskier, higher-return investments ...

SQM Research faces court over 'favourable' rating of Shield

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... the scale. "SQM Research assigned ratings between 3.5 and 3.75 stars out of 5 to the above-mentioned funds over their lifecycle. These ratings reflected an 'investment grade' classification under our methodology, but they were at the lower end ...

Bell Financial Group names inaugural investments chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
... wealth manager of choice for Australians seeking trusted advice that supports them at every stage of their investment lifecycle," Selvarajah said. On the new role, Riggall said: "The firm's unique combination of flexible advice models, proprietary technology ...

Hostplus unveils new Lifecycle option, changes fees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
Hostplus has renamed its Life investment option to Lifecycle and switched up the design of the option by reducing the life-stages from four to three. Under the new design, the three life-stages will be 'grow', 'maintain' and 'protect' ...

SQM sheds light on Shield Master Fund, First Guardian ratings

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2025
... the scale. "SQM Research assigned ratings between 3.5 and 3.75 stars out of 5 to the above-mentioned funds over their lifecycle. These ratings reflected an 'investment grade' classification under our methodology, but they were at the lower end ...

MySuper delivers 10.3% in FY25

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2025
... or balanced options either matched or exceeded Rainmaker's average of 10.3% p.a. Mercer Super Trust's default lifecycle option made more than 12% p.a. while Brighter Super's MySuper option achieved 10.9% p.a. The Cbus Growth MySuper investment ...

ART inks mandate with Zurich

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2025
... account holders," an ART spokesperson said. Super Savings accounts are available to accumulation, defined benefit and lifecycle investment strategy members. According to APRA's March 2025 statistics, there are 92,920 members in the Accumulation Choice ...

Mercer SmartPath returns exceed 12%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2025
Mercer Super Trust's default lifecycle option made more than 12% p.a. for the 2025 financial year for members aged between 18 and 52. The Mercer SmartPath returned between 12.3% p.a. and 12.6% p.a. For the same age range over a five-year horizon ...

AustralianSuper's MySuper option returns 9.5%

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2025
... while HESTA returned 10.2% p.a. Aware Super delivered a return of 11.9% p.a. and Vanguard Super's default MySuper Lifecycle product made 13.5% p.a. During the period, the nation's largest superannuation fund wrote off a whopping $1.1 billion investment ...