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Super funds put foot down on Woodside

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
Aware Super and HESTA have voted against the re-election of Woodside director Ann Pickard, who also chairs the Energy Board's Sustainability Committee, with HESTA also voting against the broader remuneration plan. The super funds said the gas giant ...

ASX outlines opportunities in listed markets amid IPO slump

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
In response to a discussion paper published by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in February, the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has outlined several opportunities to spike "global competitiveness" of Australia's ...

Franklin Templeton brings Lexington Partners PE fund down under

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
The investment manager has launched the Franklin Lexington Private Equity Secondaries Fund, offering Australian investors access to a diversified private equity portfolio focused on the secondaries market. The new offering invests into an Australian ...

Sequoia appoints licensee, adviser services lead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
... eventually slapped a series of orders on the rogue shareholders who attempted to overthrow the leadership. The panel handed down several restrictions on the shareholders and their associated entities that at the time had substantial ownerships in Seq ...

Life insurance premiums edge lower

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... sum sales edged up 1.3% in the December quarter to $203 million. This was up slightly from the September quarter, but still down 5.3% from the same quarter a year earlier. The attrition rate for individual lump sum policies rose to 10.5% in December ...

NZ Super recognised for two decades of outperformance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund is the world's best-performing sovereign wealth fund over the past 20 years. That's according to GlobalSWF's annual rankings, which found NZ Super Fund's returns over the 20 years to June 2024 significantly outperformed ...

Global economic uncertainty the main priority: Chalmers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
... to embrace technology, particularly the AI opportunity. "There's a huge agenda there for us and what our agenda boils down to is obviously weathering and withstanding this global economic uncertainty in the near term but also making sure that we ...

No US recession priced in yet: UniSuper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... That's certainly what happened initially after the tariff announcement. But after a few days, that relationship really broke down," he said. "Shares were still falling but bond yields suddenly changed direction and increased by 0.5% in a single week. ...

Coalition's super on PPL plan 'deeply worrying'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... "never tried to understand working women or cared about what support families need to be able to run their lives, and to hold down jobs - because if they did, making it harder to get childcare would not be the solution". "Neither is taking paid super ...

Super moves: Cbus, ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
... Before joining the Queensland asset owner, Wang was a senior analyst at Investment Trends. Meanwhile, Emily Fang will step down from her role as senior portfolio manager at the $300 superannuation giant. Before her three years at ART, Fang served in ...