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End of an era: Longtime Platinum exec exits

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
... very beginning. Starting her career at Bankers Trust, Norman worked on new product development before joining the retail funds management team, where she Platinum's former head of investment, Her role involved far more than her title suggests. During ...

Super funds break records, inactive accounts balloon

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2025
... total superannuation assets rose nearly 10% to $4.3 trillion. Industry super funds jumped 15% to $1.6 trillion while retail funds grew 12% to $848.5 billion. Public sector funds made a 6% gain to end up with $584.8 billion. SMSF assets, coming from a ...

Three retirement products achieve double-digit returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
... LifeStage Tracker 1974-1978 returned 12.1% p.a. and Aware Super's Personal High Growth option turned in 10.3% p.a. Retail funds GuildSuper Personal MySuper Growing and ANZ SCSP - ANZ Smart Choice 1980s achieved 10.2% p.a. and 10.1% p.a. respectively. ...

Life insurers double earnings in FY25

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2025
... superannuation assets rose 9.8% over the year to June to $4.3 trillion. Industry super funds jumped 15% to $1.6 trillion while retail funds grew 12% to $848.5 billion. Public sector funds made a 6% gain to end up with $584.8 billion. SMSF assets, coming ...

SMC backs principles-based approach to corporate governance

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
... shows profit-to-member super funds with equal representation boards have consistently and significantly out-performed retail funds with nonequal representation boards. They also retain more members, indicating stronger member trust and satisfaction," ...

ESSSuper, UniSuper spearhead member satisfaction

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
... First State, AustralianSuper, MLC, and Australian Ethical. Overall, member satisfaction rose from 66% to 68%, with retail funds closing the gap, though industry fund members remained more satisfied on average, the analysis found. "These results confirm ...

Industry funds feast, retail funds snack, corporate funds freefall

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... statistics have lifted the lid on the ongoing battle for Australia's retirement assets; industry funds charged forward, retail funds made gains without breaking into a sprint, while corporate funds retreated further. Industry funds expanded their war ...

Vanguard Super leads in organic growth: KPMG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... momentum," KPMG said, increasing their market share by 10.4% - from 29.6% in 2020 to 40% in 2025. During the same period, retail funds shrank from 24.5% to 22.7%. AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust maintained their dominance in both AUM ...

Webull launches SMSF account offering

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... a Productivity Commission report that found SMSFs with balances under $500,000 tend to underperform industry and retail funds after expenses and tax. The SMSF Association, however, which commissioned research from the University of Adelaide, begged to ...

Retail super funds spend big on advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
... amount on external financial advisers. Seventeen out of the top 20 super funds that had a massive advice budget were retail funds. AMP's Wealth Personal Superannuation and Pension Fund spent $294.5 million on external financial planning payments ...