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ETF Shares to bolster sales team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
... local market following the appointment of Will Taylor as chief operating officer. Taylor, who landed from Global X, will report to chief executive Cliff Man and oversee portfolio management, fund operations and trading, with primary responsibility for ...

Australian Ethical names head of equities

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
The $13 billion fund manager is welcoming a former Perpetual executive to its investment team. Nathan Parkin has been appointed head of equities, effective June 13, and will play a critical role in steering the ethical manager's investment performance. ...

HESTA turns the lights back on after service shutdown

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
HESTA has completed the transition of its member administration services to GROW Inc, restoring online services after a seven-week disruption to transactions and app access. HESTA, which has over one million members, said this marked the end of one ...

Super needs customised, personalised approach: FSC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
... since its inception in the main, so we haven't stared into the retirement challenges that we are about to face." The report stated that by 2033, Australia will have about 3.6 million retirees holding one quarter of the super system's assets. ...

Retirement confidence highest since 2020: SSGA

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... stabiliser of retirement confidence for many Australians. State Street Global Advisors' (SSGA) Global Retirement Reality Report shows Australians are increasingly becoming more optimistic and confident about their retirement, with levels reaching a five-year ...

ASIC blasts managed funds' poor compliance plans

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
... regulatory obligations. For example, the review identified that most plans did not address the obligation to periodically report IDR data to ASIC, as about 40% of the plans did not deal with the DDO requirements at all. The regulator also found shortcomings ...

Awareness of options could boost advice access: CFS

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
... pay for it through their super. Based on a survey of 2250 Australians, Colonial First State's (CFS) Empowered Australian report, 92% of unadvised Australians don't know they can use their superannuation to pay for financial advice. Seventy percent of ...

Life insurers report another profitable quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... superannuation funds and insurers. The Australian Financial Complaints Authority's (AFCA) latest Systemic Issues Insights Report found the claims-handling process is tarred by delays, miscommunication, and inconsistent decision-making in claims. ...

UK treasury provides guidance on local pension consolidation

MATT TOLEDO  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... 86 to six "megafunds" to scale their investments. On Thursday, the Treasury released its final Pension Investment Review report, which outlines requirements and goals for consolidation, reforms that had started under Conservative Party leadership. The ...

BlackRock hires Housing Australia treasury chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... part of this globally respected platform, and I look forward to what lies ahead," she added. In her new role, she will report to Katie Petering, head of investment strategy at BlackRock Australasia. BlackRock said the new fixed-income head will draw ...