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CFS delivers 16.6% returns for growth members

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
Colonial First State (CFS) announced impressive returns for its balanced and growth equivalent funds throughout 2024. The FirstChoice Employer Super balanced option returned 13.8% in 2024, while the FirstChoice Employer Super growth option delivered ...

Northern Trust launches new solution for insto investors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2024
Northern Trust has launched an active collateral solution designed to help institutional investors manage collateral more efficiently while meeting the demands of continual market change. Delivered in collaboration with CloudMargin, a collateral management ...

AMP makes operations, product, strategy hires

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2024
AMP has added three leadership roles to North's client servicing, investment operations and managed portfolios capabilities. Sharyn Baker has joined as director of operations, working alongside Mike Way who was appointed earlier this year as director ...

Perpetual reveals new leadership structure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2024
Perpetual is rolling out a global leadership restructure in its asset management arm, in a move that sees the departure of its chief risk and sustainability officer. As it gears up to become a standalone asset management business following the sale ...

Commonwealth Super reports strong investment performance

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2024
Commonwealth Super Corporation (CSC) has reported strong investment performance as its five-year transformation program takes shape. The $70 billion super fund's default MySuper investment option delivered a "healthy" 9.1% return over the past financial ...

Magellan warns of staggering sovereign debt

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2024
The unrelenting rise in sovereign debt could adversely impact investment markets, according to Magellan Financial Group, particularly as global public debt is expected to exceed US$100 trillion by the end of this year. Magellan warns that in many parts ...

MUFG brings Proxymity to Australian clients

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024
Digital investor communication platform Proxymity and MUFG Pension & Market Services have announced the expansion of their partnership to Australia. The partnership means that clients of MUFG Corporate Markets, a division of MUFG Pension & Market Services ...

ACTU slams plans to Americanise the superannuation system

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2024
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has criticised comments made by shadow treasurer Angus Taylor, claiming they reveal the "Coalition's dream of dismantling super." In a speech at the University of Sydney on Wednesday, Taylor said a collapse ...

Australia's retirement system slides down rankings

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024
Australia no longer has the top ranking retirement system in Asia Pacific and has also slid down the ranks globally, with experts saying it's the result of a lack of focus. According to the 16 th annual Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index ...

Federal Reserve rate cuts beckon

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
The US Federal Reserve is widely tipped to fire the starting gun on its first rate cutting cycle in years; here's what top economists see unfolding. AMP deputy chief economist Diana Mousina said some people believe the Fed is behind the curve and that ...