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Rest, NZ Super Fund top global rankings for best practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... perfect score in GlobalSWF's GSR scoreboard for governance, sustainability, and resilience. Established in 2020, the annual study examines all the publicly available information from the world's largest sovereign wealth and public pension funds to compile ...

Australian wealth increases despite variable global growth: UBS

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... tilted strongly towards North America and mainland China, which occupied more than half of the entire personal wealth in the study. Australia remains in second position for median wealth, representing a more equal spread of wealth than comparable nations ...

Boutiques wield independence, specialisation over larger managers: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... paper builds on 2015 research from Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), which calculated a boutique performance premium. That study found the outperformance of US boutiques over other asset managers during a 20-year period was as high as 127bps annually ...

TAL partners to expand access to affordable insurance

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... other trusted partners is a logical next step in levelling the life insurance playing field." According to NobleOak's recent study, only 30% of Australians are confident in their knowledge of "fully underwritten" policies despite half of these respondents ...

Inheritance dissatisfaction an advice opportunity: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... inheritance money, with nearly two in five wishing they had invested more. Still, just 20% engaged a financial adviser. "Our study reveals that most wealth holders wish they had used their inheritance differently and invested more," Capital Group president ...

'Going corporate' key to family business success: KPMG

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
... looked at the evolution of family-owned enterprises and the strategies they use to sustain growth across generations. The study highlighted the importance of governance and entrepreneurship to deliver success into the future and revealed trends specific ...

Family offices to splash cash in APAC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025
... to Asia Pacific, excluding Greater China, over the next five years. That's according to the latest Global Family Office Study from UBS, which found 55% of APAC family offices are planning to invest more in their own backyard. Some 30% said they'd also ...

Scrutiny, costs major hurdles to boosting IPOs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... Finally, Matheson said the ongoing costs associated with being listed are a significant barrier. The association conducted a study about 18 months ago looking at its own membership, being listed companies, and found the median ongoing cost of being listed ...

Coalition's super on PPL plan 'deeply worrying'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
The Coalition has confirmed that it plans to make paying superannuation on Commonwealth Paid Parental Leav e (PPL) optional for working mothers, as a $158 million budget saving measure. The Coalition's election costings revealed several cost-saving ...

AFCA highlights 'pattern of delays' in super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2025
... negative impact on consumers and contribute to a relationship breakdown between the customer and financial firm." In one case study with an unnamed fund, AFCA said it observed a "pattern of delays" in the fund's responses which affected its Internal ...