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My Dealer Services partners to enhance adviser education

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... updates for advisers. In 2024, MDS has supported more than 20% of all self-licensed advisers and is "rapidly" growing its member network, MDS said. In line with the strategic growth, MDS head of strategy Ashley Mahadeea said the company is "firmly focused" ...

Australians 'overwhelmed' by retirement: Aware

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
Sixty-three percent of Australians aged 45 and over are concerned or anxious about retirement according to Aware Super's State of Retirement report, with almost nine in 10 people worried they will run out of money. The research found one in 10 people ...

Tranche 2 of DBFO dumps SOAs, enables 'nudges'

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
The long-awaited Tranche 2 of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes draft package has been released, switching Statements of Advice for Client Advice Records and clarifying what topics super funds can collectively charge for. However, some elements ...

Mine Super and TWUSUPER merger official

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
... migrate to a new custodian as well as outsource our administrator and re-platform, all to support our journey in being a member first fund of the future," Nair said. State Street was chosen to be the master custodian. Team Super co-chairs Christina Langby ...

State Super: In decline but doing fine

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
... benefit members receive lifetime pensions, sometimes extending to a spouse or child, payments will continue until its last member dies - estimated to be in 2084. Defined contribution members, meanwhile, take a lump sum at retirement. Overall, State Super's ...

Canada pension fund hires ex-CalPERS CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... Further, he served as deputy chief investment officer at the $3.2 trillion foreign exchange reserve. He is currently a member of the ESG Advisory Council of Novata, a company that empowers the collection, analysis, benchmarking and reporting of ESG data ...

Jones calls out super sector, hints at more reform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... service standards that we will be working on will be designed to focus on those issues of insurance claim handling and member communication in particular, but they will be designed in a way that enable us to scale it out over time. If you add that to ...

Super fund consolidation to accelerate: Mercer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... and corporate are becoming "less relevant." "Funds have expanded their operations to become public offer, target wider member demographics, and reposition their business strategies to support these ambitions," Mercer said. "Our analysis of the range ...

RBA forecasting has been 'terrible': Yarra Capital Management

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
Yarra Capital Management co-head of Australian fixed income Roy Keenan believes the RBA is "really behind the curve" when it comes to easing monetary policy, arguing that a delayed rate cut has little to no effect. The firm had predicted at least two ...

Rest kickstarts in-house global equities trading

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
After about 18 months in the works, Rest's internal global equities team is now running its first mandate. The team has been handed $300 million to invest on behalf of the fund's members, with plans to progressively increase the mandate over ...