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Australian Retirement Trust applies new investment exclusion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2024
From July 1, Australian Retirement Trust (ART) will add thermal coal to its list of exclusions. ART currently applies three exclusions when directly investing in Australian and international share asset classes across all its investment options, being ...

Super for housing 'economically reckless': SMC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
The Super Members Council (SMC) has warned that encouraging young Australians to use their superannuation for a house deposit could dramatically drive-up house prices and deplete their retirement savings. "We all desperately want more Australians to ...

AustralianSuper announces insurance changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
AustralianSuper will introduce a new age-based insurance cover scale for members aged 15 to 25 from June 1 this year. New age-based cover amounts will automatically start on June 1 for members younger than 25 years old because they have made certain ...

Qantas Super boosts ag assets by $200m

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
Qantas Super has injected $200 million in an agriculture investor that has a $1.1 billion portfolio of farmland across the nation. The super fund has partnered with GO.FARM, a developer, manager, and investor in agricultural assets involved in the production ...

Mega super fund opens first international office

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
ART chief investment officer Ian Patrick said the move demonstrates the scale of investments now being undertaken since the fund's merger more than two years ago. "ART partners with world-class external managers and this is the next logical step ...

Fund managers nervously await 'golden visa' reforms

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
Fund managers that rely on "golden visas" to attract rich investors are waiting with bated breath as the government overhauls Australia's "broken" migration system. Recently, Home Affairs minister Clare O'Neill froze the ability of fund managers' ...

Actuaries Institute proposes new performance test measure

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
The Actuaries Institute has proposed revising the annual superannuation performance test, so it better aligns trustees' investments with the best financial interests of members. In its Treasury submission, the Institute said the test should include ...

Auditors lambast mandatory climate reporting requirements

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
Almost 90% of surveyed auditors do not support the government's requirements to implement mandatory climate reporting and assurance on private companies, not-for-profits and companies limited by guarantee, according to a new survey. The survey was conducted ...

Bitcoin halving won't bring immediate price rise

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2024
The Bitcoin halving event - which occurred over the weekend - has seen optimism around the cryptocurrency rise, but major price increases may take some time to shine through. The halving event is coded to occur every 210,000 blocks and halves the reward ...

The Aussie wealthtech firms that are 'most innovative'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024
The annual list of the world's most innovative wealthtech companies was recently released, with several Australian firms making the cut. Iress, GBST, Practifi, Lumiant, and Ignition Advice were all on the list, which was selected by a panel of industry ...