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Iress completes sale of super business

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
Iress has today completed the sale of its superannuation business to Apex Group. Apex Group purchased the super business for $40 million cash and additional payments of up to $20 million over 12 months subject to agreed revenue milestones. The terms ...

Awareness of options could boost advice access: CFS

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
Superannuation is the number one topic Australians want financial advice on, however a significant proportion have little to no idea they can pay for it through their super. Based on a survey of 2250 Australians, Colonial First State's (CFS) Empowered ...

ART pinged by ASIC over misleading returns data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
... Lifecycle Investment Strategy's performance was better than it truly was," ASIC deputy chair Sarah Court said. "Superannuation is the largest asset of many Australians outside their family home. This notice is a reminder that it is imperative that Australian ...

Regal Partners charts US expansion

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... changes, the phasing out of bank hybrids and the federal government's plans to tax unrealised gains within high superannuation balances," O'Connor said. "Importantly, this type of multi-strategy product has only been made possible because of the acquisitions ...

Life insurers report another profitable quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... incurred claims of $475 million. Across different products, individual disability income insurance (IDII), at the superannuation and ordinary business level, made $1.1 billion in revenues in the March quarter, holding steady on a quarterly basis and ...

UK treasury provides guidance on local pension consolidation

MATT TOLEDO  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... greater infrastructure investment domestically, with the goal of emulating Canadian pension funds and Australian superannuation funds. "Evidence from Australia and Canada shows that this size allows pension funds to invest in big infrastructure projects ...

Aware Super recruits Marsh McLennan risk specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... where she served as chief risk and compliance officer for the Pacific region. Her appointment comes as Australian superannuation funds face heightened regulatory scrutiny and increasing pressure to demonstrate robust governance frameworks. In her new ...

Former TCorp exec sets up consultancy

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
A longtime investment professional has set up an investment consultancy to advise superannuation funds on the total portfolio approach (TPA) to investment. Nigel Wilkin-Smith founded Long Horizon Enterprises to address what he sees as a glaring gap ...

Quality over quantity: CareSuper on mergers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... entity announced it was in discussion with another industry fund to enter the fold - the Meat Industry Employees Superannuation Fund (MIESF). At just $1.1 billion and as a closed fund catering to a shrinking industry, MIESF has recently struggled with ...

Coalition names shadow treasurer, financial services minister

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... democracy, adding that "we've laid the foundation stones of a Coalition that can move forward..." Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chief executive Mary Delahunty said the industry group looks forward to working constructively with the ...