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BUSSQ streamlines product offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... historically had two accumulation phase products for members in BUSSQ MySuper and Premium Choice. The MySuper product was the default, investing members in the MySuper Balanced Growth option and giving them default insurance cover. Meantime, Premium ...

Australian Ethical aligns Christian Super members' cover

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... changes to their insurance fees and cover come December 1, Australian Ethical announced. From 1 December 2025 automatic default death and total and permanent disablement (TPD) cover will move to a new age-based scale. In addition, default cover will ...

Super moves: CareSuper, Hostplus, Cbus

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
... he was responsible for driving the growth of memberships and funds under management through acquisition of new employer default arrangements. McNamara brings over two decades of financial services experience to the role at Hostplus. Before NGS Super ...

Soul Patts focused on 'bespoke' private sector investing

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
Speaking at the Australian Shareholders' Association Engage webinar, Washington H. Soul Pattinson (Soul Patts) chief executive Todd Barlow shared how the firm achieved success in both the listed and the private sectors. Barlow said the firm has ...

HESTA hits $100bn in assets

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
... ready-made super options in the last financial year and a lower minimum balance for accessing Income Stream products. The default MySuper Balanced Growth option saw investment fees reduce from 0.62% to 0.58% while investment fees in the High Growth option ...

Australian Food Super to transition to age-based premiums

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2025
... it will increase to $527.28 for 46-55-year-olds and $718.12 for 56-70-year-olds. These premiums assume the member has default cover of two units of life, one unit of TPD, and seven units of income protection. The super fund said fee changes align costs ...

Managed portfolios now the default: AMP

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025
The North Managed Portfolios Insight Report by AMP indicates the mainstream popularisation of managed portfolios in the past year. The report references recent IMAP and Milliman data showing total managed portfolio assets under management (AUM) has ...

Hostplus slams Lendlease over $2bn fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2025
... knowing, that the APPFI quorum requirements are dated and inappropriate." Lendlease will now keep control of the fund by default due to the two failed attempts to conduct a meeting. Hostplus has also called for changes to the fund's constitution to enable ...

HESTA changes investment fees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2025
... investment fee reductions were across HESTA's top four ready-made super investment options, by funds under management. The default MySuper Balanced Growth option saw investment fees reduce from 0.62% to 0.58%. Members in the Conservative option benefited ...

Insurers' approaches reinforcing mental health stigma: Life CCC

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2025
... conditions, others are not. A critical issue raised from the inquiry is that insurers' underwriting processes are often to default to exclusions or denials when applicants disclose a mental health condition. Of the underwriting guidelines reviewed ...