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Aware Super appoints head of public market equities

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024
... to portfolio manager. "I'm excited to be relocating back to Australia to join one of the nation's leading super funds with an impressive returns track record and a leading responsible investment focus," Hong said. "Aware Super is celebrated in ...

Super fund satisfaction improves: Roy Morgan

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2024
... improvement in recent months has been driven by impressive increases for industry funds, up 1.4% to 68.2%, and self-managed super funds (SMSFs), up 1.4% to 75.8%. In recent months, various industry funds have performed exceptionally well, Roy Morgan ...

Australian Ethical super chief goes for growth in 2024

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2024
... Financial Standard, Piper, who joined Australian Ethical from Christian Super following the merger between the two super funds in December 2022, said scaling the business enabled "meaningful investment" in back-office processes, important to maintaining ...

ME Bank fined $820k for misleading borrowers

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2024
... convictions," Mullaly said. Impacted customers have been remediated. ME Bank, which had been owned by a group of industry super funds since 1994, became a subsidiary of Bank of Queensland (BOQ) in 2021.

Mercer Super loses state leaders

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2024
... clients and putting in place programs that are mutually rewarding. Also of particular interest are the opportunities for super funds to engage and support older membership cohorts as they transition to retirement," he said. For his part, Der Stepanian ...

Treasury releases climate disclosure draft legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024
Super funds with more than $5 billion in assets under management will have to report on the financial impacts of climate change from 1 July 2026, according to mandatory climate risk reporting legislation proposed by government. Treasury released the ...

Bragg proposes super fund reforms to protect retail investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2024
... for The Australian, Bragg proposed broadening the Takeovers Panel's mandate to include the requirement for mega super funds to consider the interests of individual investors in major transactions. He noted that the Panel already has authority to ...

Industry funds gear up for brand transformation post-merger

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2023
... "the two funds share a strong heritage of "member first values" as historically important profit to member industry super funds."

What you read in 2023

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2023
... transferred to Asgard Independence Plan Division Two which, like the Panorama options, did not transfer to Mercer. 3) Retail super funds plan to merge (July 26) In July, Colonial First State's Avanteos Investments made the decision to close encircle ...

Hostplus ups fees on socially responsible option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2023
... investment fees and costs now sit at 0.62%, an increase of 0.13% overall. Rainmaker analysis of 45 SRI products from 15 super funds shows the average investment fee, including performance fee and transaction costs, for SRI options is 0.59%. In explaining ...