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Australia progresses climate transition disclosures, planning

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
Australia is showing progress with disclosing and adopting its clean energy transition initiatives as investors' demand for credible emissions reduction strategies grows, a study from MSCI shows. Among listed Australian companies analysed in the APAC ...

Rest, NZ Super Fund top global rankings for best practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
Rest and the NZ Super Fund have bagged a perfect score in GlobalSWF's GSR scoreboard for governance, sustainability, and resilience. Established in 2020, the annual study examines all the publicly available information from the world's largest sovereign ...

En garde: New fund eyes Vanguard, Betashares' turf

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... of funds under management (FUM) - thanks largely to their flagship core, low-cost equity exposures. However, Financial Standard understands that Global X may plan to challenge the incumbents where they're arguably strongest. Clues to Global X's intentions ...

New SMSF industry body launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
The SMSF Innovation Council has launched to provide the SMSF sector with education, advocacy and a best-practice framework to help navigate the digital assets landscape. Chaired by Kate Cooper, the initiative is focused on collaborating and sharing ...

Small industry super funds beat giants on trust, service, value

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... money, according to CoreData's annual member engagement survey. CoreData research consultant Alana Devitt told Financial Standard that members' trust in small industry funds is built through transparency and communication, which bigger funds "don't do ...

IFM Investors chief of staff exits

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... industries and organisations than others, but we did discover that IFM Investors... isn't really one of them." Financial Standard understands the chief of staff role is not to be replaced. "Amara has made a great contribution to IFM Investors during ...

ASIC reads the riot act to the super industry: Longo

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
ASIC chair Joe Longo has hailed the superannuation industry's $4.1 trillion war chest, which is larger than the ASX's total market capitalisation, as an impressive achievement. But for all its size and influence, Longo reinforced at the AmCham Regulator ...

Msquared Capital secures $150m warehouse facility with Australian bank

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... maintaining its focus on quality and risk discipline, Msquared added. Msquared chief executive Paul Miron told Financial Standard that the warehouse covers deals of any type and size that's financed directly in the Msquared Mortgage Income Fund. "Therefore ...

ASX offloads interest in Digital Asset

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has sold its shareholding in Digital Asset Holdings, the firm it partnered with in 2016 to build the doomed CHESS replacement. The sale price is approximately $57 million, with a pre-tax gain of about $42 million ...

APRA plans to remove 'unnecessary obstacles' for longevity products

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
APRA has proposed changes to its prudential framework for annuities, committing to removing unnecessary obstacles to the development of more "innovative" and "competitively priced" longevity products. The regulator identified two issues with its existing ...