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Aware Super closes fixed interest fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2024
Aware Super announced it closed its fixed interest fund on June 11 citing a lack of demand for the product. The super fund said it regularly reviews its products and given demand for the Fixed Interest Fund, recent performance, and future performance ...

Vanguard Super's default option delivers 13.2% return

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024
Vanguard Super's default MySuper lifecycle investment option has posted a 13.2% return in its first full financial year. This investment option outperformed some of Australia's largest superannuation funds, surpassing all industry funds on a one-year ...

'Growing revenues, not AUM, is the new name of the game': ISS

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
... models, separately managed accounts, direct indexing programs or other private structures," the report said. "Still others may opt to capture value throughout the value chain, as partners with advice providers or as distributors/wealth managers themselves. ...

Insignia Financial overhauls operating model, executive team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
Just a day after denying it has engaged Citi to consider takeover offers, Insignia Financial has overhauled its entire operating model and executive lineup. Insignia Financial is moving away from its current functional operating model and introducing ...

MetLife refreshes two products

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
MetLife introduced several changes to two products that are available through financial advisers. The changes that took effect on June 30 impact policyholders in MetLife Protect and MetLife Protect Super. MetLife Protect insures against death, trauma ...

Political risk pushes institutional investors to cash: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
State Street Global Markets has released the results of the State Street Institutional Investor Indicators for June, showing risk appetite fell 0.09 in June, revealing a modest risk off bias across the month. State Street Global Markets head of macro ...

Spaceship returns 19.41% to super members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
Spaceship's superannuation offerings have delivered some of the best results seen so far, with its flagship product returning almost 20% while the other achieved close to 17%. The GrowthX investment option, first launched in January 2017, returned 19.41% ...

ASX delistings outpacing new market entries

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
The latest EQT ASX Group Monthly Activity Report for June 2024 highlighted a significant trend of ASX delistings outpacing new market entries last financial year. The report suggested investors were increasingly pivoting towards private markets in search ...

Future Super returns 10.1% to ethically minded members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
Future Group's flagship super offering has returned 10.1%, while Verve Super achieved 9.9% last financial year. The results are for the Future Super Balanced Index option and Verve Super's standalone strategy. Future Group said the results are proof ...

MLC MySuper option returns 9.8%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
The MLC MySuper growth portfolio has generated a 9.8% investment return for the financial year. The three and five-year returns for that option were 5.4% and 6.7% per annum, respectively. MLC Asset Management head of diversified portfolios Steve Gamerov ...