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Super funds' private market assets grow to $400bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
Superannuation funds had $400 billion invested in private market assets, jumping 34% in the two years to June 2024, Rainmaker Information analysis of APRA data shows. Private real assets, classified as unlisted investments in property and infrastructure ...

Treasury welcomes new leader

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
The Secretary of the Department of Finance will make history as the first woman to lead Treasury, commencing June 16. Jenny Wilkinson will replace Steven Kennedy, who is taking on a new role of Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. ...

Labor proposes changes to ancillary funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
Labor is proposing several reforms to giving or ancillary funds that include increasing the annual distribution rate and smoothing out minimal distributions over three years. In the consultation paper Giving fund reforms: Distribution rate and smoothing ...

State Street's plan for power, product, partnerships

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... for us to create some more competition around fees," leading SSGA to slash the management costs of six of its ETFs last June - by 30% to 60%. Three of those ETFs were poised to be the lowest-cost funds in their respective categories, a move that, he ...

ECB drops interest rates by 0.25%

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
The European Central Bank (ECB) lowered its benchmark interest rates by 25 basis points overnight as inflation comes within its target levels. The three key interest rates on the deposit facility, main refinancing operations and the marginal lending ...

Australian Ethical names head of equities

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
The $13 billion fund manager is welcoming a former Perpetual executive to its investment team. Nathan Parkin has been appointed head of equities, effective June 13, and will play a critical role in steering the ethical manager's investment performance. ...

ART pinged by ASIC over misleading returns data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
Australian Retirement Trust (ART) was fined by the regulator after it was found to have showcased better returns than what was really being achieved for its MySuper option. ASIC alleged ART misled consumers by publishing outdated performance data for ...

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

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
The COVID-19 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. ...

Aware Super cuts fees for retiree members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
Aware Super is shaving up to 25% off administration fees for its retiree membership. The $190 billion fund is reducing the annual administration fee for retirement income and retirement transition members from June 1. The fee will drop from 0.23% of ...

Challenger adds to board director lineup

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
Challenger has appointed two independent non-executive directors, while JoAnne Stephenson will retire on June 30. John Somerville and David Whittle have been added to the board of Challenger and Challenger Life Company, collectively bringing over 55 ...