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Super moves: TCorp, Mercer, Commonwealth

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... won the promotion after just two years with NSW's sovereign investment manager. Bahramali joined TCorp from Resolution Life following eight years with QBE. At the insurance giant, he had two roles. He began his career as an investment analyst before ...

Platinum, L1 merger to help fight 'organic business decline'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... against ongoing decline but other hurdles remain, according to Morningstar equity analyst Shaun Ler. "The merger injects new life into Platinum, helping to arrest the organic decline of its business by merging with another asset manager that has better-performing ...

Insurer names interim chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
Adrian Stewart is set to leave Allianz Australia Life Insurance and Allianz Retire+, with an acting chief executive appointed. David Kane, currently chief operating officer, is stepping into the lead role in an interim capacity. Allianz said Stewart ...

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 ...

Future Group reveals super fund returns, fee changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2025
Future Group has announced the returns for smartMonday, GuildSuper and Child Care Super while also announcing a fee reduction for smartMonday members. smartMonday super fund has reduced fees across all investment options effective 7 June 2025, delivering ...

AustralianSuper's MySuper option returns 9.5%

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2025
AustralianSuper's MySuper option delivered 9.5% p.a. for members in the 2025 financial year, slightly trailing behind its peers. The MySuper Balanced option, in which the majority of its nearly 3.7 million members are invested, has about 25% invested ...

MA Financial makes $380m real estate investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2025
MA Financial Group has confirmed institutional funding of $380 million for the delivery of a $540 million development in North Burleigh. The investment has been made via MA Financial's $1 billion Australian Real Estate Credit Vehicle was announced last ...

Vanguard, CFS deliver strong FY25 returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2025
... State's (CFS) confirmed that two of its MySuper Lifestage options delivered above 11% p.a. while the results for other life stages are being finalised. The FirstChoice Employer Super growth fund (MySuper Lifestage 1975-79) delivered 12.8% p.a. while ...

AMP actions impacted 'hundreds of thousands' of customers: Shine

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2025
... of Australians who it alleges were charged excessive insurance premiums within AMP superannuation funds and insured by AMP Life. The firm alleges that NM Superannuation Pty Limited and AMP Superannuation Limited (the AMP trustees) failed to act in the ...

ASFA publishes new service standards on claims handling

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2025
... involving funds, insurers, administrators and other industry associations the Super Members Council, the Council of Australian Life Insurers and the Financial Services Council. Former chair of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal Jocelyn Furlan chaired ...