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Australians 'overwhelmed' by retirement: Aware

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
Sixty-three percent of Australians aged 45 and over are concerned or anxious about retirement according to Aware Super's State of Retirement report, with almost nine in 10 people worried they will run out of money. The research found one in 10 people ...

Vanguard ETFs record most consistent monthly net flows: Research

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
Vanguard ETFs have recorded the most consistent inflows of any manager over the past two years, according to Rainmaker Information. Over the two years to December 2024, monthly net flows to its ETFs showed an autocorrelation of 0.59 - a statistical ...

SQM places private credit sector on watch

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
SQM Research has placed the private credit sector on watch, saying it is increasingly encountering red flags when rating offerings. The research house has been covering private credit since 2007. SQM currently rates on some 70 private credit funds across ...

Super fund consolidation to accelerate: Mercer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
Australia's superannuation industry is poised for accelerated consolidation, with most existing funds set to disappear, according to a Mercer report. The report noted that during the 2023/24 financial year, the number of APRA-regulated super funds declined ...

Skills gap crisis costing Australia $3.5bn a year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
School-leaver job uncertainty and the widening skills gap is costing the Australian economy billions of dollars every year, according to a new report by Year13 and HEDx. The report, which highlights the challenges faced by students in post-school transition ...

ASIC freezes assets Shield, First Guardian marketer

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
ASIC has frozen the assets of Rashid Alshakshir, who facilitated leads to the Shield Master Fund and First Guardian Master Fund, as it investigates his links with property fund manager and developer Paul Chiodo. Alshakshir has ties to the funds, according ...

Aussie instos on the hunt for niche opportunities

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
Nuveen's Global Institutional Investor Survey has found that Australian investors are more likely to increase their allocations to private markets in the next five years and to seek out new niche opportunities within the asset class than their global ...

Active Super fined $10.5m for greenwashing

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2025
Active Super's greenwashing will cost it $10.5 million in civil penalties for misleading members about its ESG credentials purported to eliminate investments in Russian companies and others involved in mining and tobacco, the Federal Court determined ...

Managed account use at record high: Data

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025
New research from State Street Global Advisors and Investment Trends shows about 59% of Australian financial advisers are now using managed accounts (MAs), as performance remains the top criteria for advisers. According to the SPDR ETFs / Investment ...

CareSuper to merge with meat industry fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025
CareSuper is set to merge with a $1 billion industry fund with 56,000 members. The $56 billion super fund, which has around 550,000, has struck a binding agreement to merge with the Meat Industry Employees' Superannuation Fund (MIESF). CareSuper chair ...