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Super moves: ART, AustralianSuper, Rest, Unisuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... relocation to the Middle East comes close on the heels of the recent move by the Future Fund's former investment chief, Ben Samild, to the Mubadala-owned Abu Dhabi Investment Council as chief strategist. Another Future Fund operative Olivia Kim recently ...

MLC platform adds retirement specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
MLC Expand has hired a retirement specialist following strong demand for its retirement income product launched in August with TAL and Challenger. Andrew Long is tasked with promoting MLC Retirement Boost to licensees and financial advisers. Long brings ...

Cbus launches Age Pension campaign

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
Cbus has launched a campaign to help its members near the age of retirement claim government pension benefits. In a recent survey of its members, Cbus found that nine out of 10 respondents approaching retirement age lack confidence in understanding ...

Delaying reforms to YFYS test, RG97 costing members: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
Retirees may be as much as $20,000 worse off at retirement due to the Your Future, Your Super performance test and RG97, a new report suggests. It could also be costing the country up to 140,000 jobs, the Australian Investment Council and Mandala say. ...

Resilience more important than growth: Arndt

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
Future Fund chief executive Raphael Arndt said portfolio construction must focus on resilience over growth as the world sits at a "perpetual inflection point". "The weaponisation of trade, the persistence of inflation, climate shocks and a rising cost ...

Japanese insurer acquires stake in Barings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2025
A Japanese insurance company is taking an 18% stake in Barings to support its long-term growth strategy. MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, via subsidiary Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., will acquire 18% of Barings from MassMutual. MassMutual will continue ...

CalPERS adopts total portfolio approach

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2025
One of the world's largest pension funds is shifting to a total portfolio approach (TPA), saying it will improve transparency and provide flexibility to capitalise on opportunities. Following a board vote, the California Public Employees' Retirement ...

Human biases call for simpler retirement framework: Research

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2025
Financial advisers need to tackle inherent behavioural bias in members and build simpler frameworks to improve retirement outcomes, according to research by Industry Fund Services (IFS). The whitepaper, published in collaboration with Challenger, identified ...

Ten Cap launches first active ETF

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2025
Ten Cap will launch its first active ETF on the ASX, to be available to investors from November 24. The ETF will be based on the firm's existing Alpha Plus Fund, a long-short equity only strategy in Australia. Ten Cap co-founder and lead portfolio manager ...

Global resilience is a key systemic risk: HESTA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2025
HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey told the recent ASFA Conference 2025 that the super fund has been considering global resilience as a key thematic when making responsible investment decisions. "We see this as a systemic risk, the same as climate change ...