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Special feature: Hunting for value

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... companies must refinance old, low-cost debt at today's much higher rates, which strains balance sheets and increases default risk. "These pressures, combined with growing regulatory scrutiny, make floating rate credit less attractive in the current ...

Mercer Super sued over 'longstanding and systemic' failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
... including insurance premiums not being refunded correctly after members had died; member accounts not being created with default insurance; incorrect investment fees disclosed in product guides; communications not being issued to members when moving ...

Geopolitics, private credit force insurers to 'shift gears': Janus Henderson

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2025
... asset-backed lending (ABL), and hedging credit spread risk using low beta strategies and dynamic overlays such as credit default swaps (CDS). Artificial intelligence (AI) will also be a key theme moving forward, with a significant 400% increase in deployment ...

MySuper delivers 10.3% in FY25

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2025
... returns for MySuper members. MySuper options are home to 15 million member accounts with savings of $1.1 trillion. Several default or balanced options either matched or exceeded Rainmaker's average of 10.3% p.a. Mercer Super Trust's default lifecycle ...

UniSuper delivers 10.3% to members

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2025
UniSuper has delivered a 10.3% return for its Balanced (default) option for the year to June 30. Members in the Growth option saw 11% returns for the year. The two sustainable-branded options, Sustainable High Growth and Sustainable Balanced, returned ...

Brighter Super default members earn 11% in FY25

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2025
Brighter Super's MySuper option achieved 10.9% p.a. for the 2025 financial year, exceeding performance for the medium and long term. The latest result outpaced the three-, five- and 10-year time horizons of 10.3% p.a., 8.2% p.a. and 7.2% p.a. respectively. ...

Mercer SmartPath returns exceed 12%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2025
Mercer Super Trust's default lifecycle option made more than 12% p.a. for the 2025 financial year for members aged between 18 and 52. The Mercer SmartPath returned between 12.3% p.a. and 12.6% p.a. For the same age range over a five-year horizon ...

Future Group reveals super fund returns, fee changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2025
... with MySuper Growing Lifestage and MySuper Consolidating Lifestage returning 11.3% and 9.2% respectively. Outside the default MySuper options, the Super Growth option delivered 11.1% and Pension Growth returned 12.8%. "We're proud to deliver these strong ...

AustralianSuper's MySuper option returns 9.5%

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2025
... detractors of performance. Nevertheless, he said that delivering "this strong result for members is pleasing". For their default options, Australian Retirement Trust (ART) made 11.2% p.a. while HESTA returned 10.2% p.a. Aware Super delivered a return ...

Cbus, Rest deliver 'strong' returns amid heightened volatility

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2025
... Super will likely remain one of the top five performing super funds over 10-, 15- and 20-year periods, the fund said. Its default option has achieved an average annual return over 10 years of 7.75%. "As the events of FY25 have demonstrated, in your accumulation ...