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HESTA returns 10.18% to members

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
HESTA's MySuper Balanced Growth option has delivered 10.18% for the 2024/25 financial year, with the fund crediting the performance of listed equities and prudent management of market volatility for the result. The outcome represents the third consecutive ...

Lack of confidence in US equities brings investors back home

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
Geopolitical tensions and US trade policy uncertainty have continued to dampen investor sentiment, with many shifting their attention to Australian equities, new research found. According to Investment Trends' 2025 First Half Australia Online Investing ...

Major airport lands TelstraSuper as new investor

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
TelstraSuper is making a strategic investment in New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport as it undergoes a major redevelopment. JFK Airport is being transformed, with a US$19 billion project currently underway, including US$15 billion of ...

Local assets help deliver 12% for ART

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
Homegrown investments helped bolster returns for Australian Retirement Trust (ART) in the 2025 financial year, with some options achieving nearly 12% p.a. The $313 billion super fund with 2.43 million members delivered 11.2% p.a. for its Balanced option ...

Aware Super flies the coop with sale to KKR

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
Aware Super has sold its stake in ProTen to KKR for an undisclosed amount. Established in 2001, ProTen develops, owns, and operates farm infrastructure for Australia's poultry supply chain. The company manages poultry infrastructure including more than ...

APRA expects 'no cutting corners' with CPS230

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
APRA is warning superannuation funds "not to cut corners" when in it comes to getting their operational risk management in order as the landmark prudential standard CPS 230 comes into effect today. CPS 230 Operational Risk Management effectively forces ...

Finance news foretells stock market volatility: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
Daily financial news can better predict stock market volatility and deliver more accurate signals about risk than backward-looking macroeconomic data, a new study suggests. University of Auckland finance lecturer Justin J. Case and Queensland University ...

Chalmers opens economic reform consultation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has opened the new economic reform consultation paper while issuing more invitations to the government's Economic Reform Roundtable. "The roundtable is an important opportunity to build consensus for long term economic reform," ...

MLC AM delivers real returns for members in FY25

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
Staying the course on listed equities amid tariff-induced market turbulence has led to MLC Asset Management achieving double-digit returns for the 2025 financial year and, more importantly, real returns for members, according to its investments chief. ...

Super funds, banks say cybersecurity is now their biggest concern

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
APRA's 2025 Stakeholder Survey shows that cyber security risk has emerged as the topmost concern in financial services. The survey, which gathered responses from 262 financial institutions, revealed that the threat of cyber security was listed as a ...