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NGS Super moves to make admin fees more equitable

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2025
... benefit from fee savings when it transfers its administration function to Grow Inc. next month. As reported by Financial Standard, after a lengthy delay NGS Super is getting ready to transfer administrators. The move to Grow Inc. from Mercer is supposed ...

Retirement lifestyle costs continue to rise: ASFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2025
According to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia's (ASFA) quarterly Retirement Standard, most couples around 65 wishing to live a comfortable lifestyle in retirement would need $75,319 per year. That's an increase from $73,875 in ...

Brighter Super to add 68k new members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2025
... adding 61,000 new members when it took on the Zurich Insurance-only Superannuation Plan. In a statement to Financial Standard, Brighter Super said: "The transfer will enable members to continue to access risk only insurance benefits through superannuation ...

Female fund managers' triumphant decade: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
... approach to risk. The data substantiates the sentiment, revealing that mixed-gender teams have delivered the "lowest standard deviations" in four of the past five years, as well as the lowest maximum drawdown over the past year. The Trump effect However ...

Latest adviser exam sees 69% pass

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2025
ASIC has handed down the results for the 30th Financial Adviser Exam, held in August, with the pass rate once again falling under the 70% mark. The previous exam cycle in June saw the lowest pass rate in recent times at 66%. Although slightly improved ...

Allow couples tax-free super splitting: Hume

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... family law provisions as part of divorce proceedings. However, this no longer requires a court order, and there is now standard forms and recognised tax treatments of a rollover amount when a marriage or relationship has ended. "So why not allow it to ...

ASIC, APRA outline regulatory reform opportunities

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) have outlined opportunities for regulatory reform in letters sent to Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher. APRA ...

Binance names head of APAC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
Global cryptocurrency exchange Binance appoints a new head of APAC after Vishal Sacheendran left the business in July. SB Seker, who previously worked as senior VP at Crypto.com, will lead the group's Asia Pacific operations, bringing with him a ...

RBA 'alert' to impact of tech on the economy: Bullock

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Michele Bullock has said the future of central banking will be shaped by how the RBA chooses to engage with new technologies in a meaningful way, while speaking at an event in Perth. "At the RBA, we are actively ...

Super funds test cybersecurity resilience

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
... University's Nigel Phair, a professor in the department of software systems and cybersecurity, recently told Financial Standard that super funds are still grappling with the basics of cybersecurity. In his research, Phair calls out "cyberwashing" ...