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CareSuper earns place among pension fund giants, ART breaks into top 20

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2026
... with $2.9 trillion (US$2.1tn), followed by Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund with $2.60 trillion (US$1.88tn) Total assets under management in the top 300 funds increased by 13.4% in 2025, compared to an increase of 7.9% in 2024. Thinking ...

BNP Paribas AM wins additional US$600m from pension fund

VINNY VUCAGO  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2026
... the Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS) for its significant risk transfer (SRT) strategy, taking the US pension fund's total commitment to US$1 billion. The latest allocation follows a US$400 million investment in the strategy in April 2024 and forms ...

Is demand for active ETPs genuine beyond outlier conversions?

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2026
... billion at the end of June. At the end of the 2026 financial year, market-cap index products accounted for the majority of total FUM at 83%. Smart-beta products represented 11%, while active products accounted for 6%.

AIA Australia rolls out TPD CORE

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2026
... has launched TPD CORE, a new retail product that charges lower premiums and provides clearer claim assessment criteria for total and permanent disability (TPD). Some of TPD CORE's key features include a five-year rate guarantee, a lump sum benefit ...

Insurer sanctioned for over 10k breaches

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2026
... 2025, with a further review identifying the additional breaches, which the insurer reported as its review progressed. In total, the insurer reported 10,105 breaches. Of these, 4686 breaches related to delays in issuing annual notices by the third-party ...

Superannuation assets inch to nearly $4.8tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2026
Total superannuation assets hit nearly $4.8 trillion in the last financial year, marking a 9% rise, namely driven by the rise of industry funds. APRA's newly released statistics for the year ending June 30 showed Australians' retirement savings ...

KKR to pocket $24bn from USI sale

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2026
... approximately six times the original equity KKR invested in 2017, valued at around $6 billion (US$4.3bn) and 3.4 times the total KKR balance sheet capital invested over its investment in USI, KKR said. According to the private equity investor, USI's ...

FEATURE | Managed accounts | Industrialising advice

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2026
... previously ran managed accounts at BT Financial Group. JANA says the appointment reflects growth in the wealth business, with total wealth client funds under management reaching $15 billion, including more than $3.4 billion in managed accounts. "If you ...

APRA hits 12 super options with failed grade

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2026
... strategy. This was the only one of 50 MySuper products tested to have failed, the first failure since 2023. Eleven out of a total of 141 TDPs failed the test. Five of these failed for at least two consecutive years. Appearing on the list for the first ...

AUDC supports startup to launch tokenised private credit offering

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2026
... digital markets." The platform has originated more than $35 million (US$25m) in credit volume, with over $14 million (US$10m) total value locked, and has paid over $1.3 million (US$900,000) in interest to lenders to date. The announcement follows AUDD's ...