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Small industry super funds beat giants on trust, service, value

ANDREW MCKEAN | WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025

Small industry super funds lead on trust, service, and value for money, according to CoreData's annual member engagement survey. CoreData research consultant Alana Devitt told Financial Standard that members' trust in small industry funds is built through ...

CareSuper chief member officer to depart

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025

CareSuper will soon bid farewell to its chief member officer, as it welcomes a new deputy chair and two board directors. Jean-Luc Ambrosi is leaving CareSuper in August after three years with the fund. He joined CareSuper from TelstraSuper, where he'd ...

Investor optimism premature, fund flows in firing line

KARREN VERGARA | WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025

While investor sentiment has improved since Liberation Day, geopolitical and tariff uncertainties will continue to deteriorate fund flows for asset managers, Morningstar predicts. The latest Industry Pulse shows how fund manager flows dwindled in the ...

Pacific Current Group appoints new chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025

A former super fund chief executive is becoming chair of Pacific Current Group (PAC). Justin Arter has been named as the incoming chair of the ASX-listed multi-boutique manager. He will commence on July 1, succeeding Tony Robinson who has served on ...

Firms rebuffing AFCA determinations should be named: FAAA, professional bodies

KARREN VERGARA | TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025

The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) and four other professional bodies are urging the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) to name and shame financial firms that fail to follow through on a determination as more than 60 have ...

Middle Australia on track for 'comfortable retirement': ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN | TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025

Thanks to a subtle shift in superannuation policy, a 30-year-old Australian earning the median wage is, for the first time, on the path to achieve a comfortable retirement, according to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). ASFA ...

TAL partners to expand access to affordable insurance

MATTHEW WAI | MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025

The life insurer has today launched backd by TAL in partnership with Cover Genius, targeting those with limited access to affordable cover options. backd offers tailored, affordable options for workers not currently eligible for other types of cover ...

ASIC reads the riot act to the super industry: Longo

ANDREW MCKEAN | FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025

ASIC chair Joe Longo has hailed the superannuation industry's $4.1 trillion war chest, which is larger than the ASX's total market capitalisation, as an impressive achievement. But for all its size and influence, Longo reinforced at the AmCham Regulator ...

BFA Global heads offshore

ELIZABETH FRY | THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025

Private assets investment manager BFA Global Investors is expanding into Singapore as the firm looks to capitalise on growing institutional demand across Asia-Pacific markets. The move marks a significant milestone for the investment manager led by ...

Trade war threat sparks allocation rethink by asset owners

ANDREW MCKEAN | THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025

Geopolitical uncertainty, particularly the spectre of a global trade war and its ensuing market fallout, was top of mind for asset owners surveyed in part one of Morningstar's annual Voice of the Asset Owner Survey. Of the asset owners surveyed, nearly ...

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Mercer Super chief executive steps down

RIDDHIMA TALWANI

Mercer Super chief executive Claire Ross is departing after almost 17 years in senior leadership roles at the retail super fund.

AusFood Super looks to revitalise member engagement

MATTHEW WAI

The $3.5 billion super fund has partnered with InvestStream to launch RetireSmart+, becoming the first super fund to bring an AI-powered engagement experience to some 66,000 members.

L1 Group posts 'marked recovery' in June quarter

RIDDHIMA TALWANI

L1 Group has reported a marked recovery in investment performance in the June quarter.

European PE firm mandates Apostle with Australian distribution

RIDDHIMA TALWANI

Apostle Funds Management has been appointed by European investment firm Triton Partners for the distribution of its credit strategies in Australia and New Zealand.

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