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FEATURE | Nature risk | Paved paradise

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2026
... highest rate of biodiversity decline of any developed nation, according to the Threatened Species Index. A 2021 government study also found Australia has lost more mammal species than any other continent and continues to have one of the highest rates ...

Product Showcase: Making group insurance count

THE FINANCIAL STANDARD TEAM  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2026
... members better understand their cover and how to make a claim when they need it. The Actuaries Institute found in a 2025 study that, based on current rates of death and disability, around 30% of fund members will experience at least one insured event ...

Active managers face selection test: Morningstar

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2026
... peers across most segments over the past year, leading to a decline in trailing 10-year success rates across much of the study," Sanzgiri said. "Even so, top-quartile active managers in seven of the nine categories delivered positive excess returns over ...

Retirement confidence lags as investors turn to AI

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2026
... confidence and financial literacy is keeping many savers on the sidelines, according to Amundi's latest global investor study. The third edition of Amundi's Decoding Investors study surveyed 17,000 respondents across 26 countries and found personal ...

Australia's alpha female representation regresses: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2026
... Switzerland and Germany are near the bottom of the country table, with just 8% and 7.2% women managers respectively. The study found that after a decade of slow progress in improving female representation in funds management, gains have been stunted. ...

Asset managers turn to outsourcing, AI: Survey

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2026
... 2024, while the proportion prioritising product reduction increased from 5% to 28%. "The central theme emerging from our study is a renewed focus on the core: core products, core capabilities, core markets and core client relationships," the report said. ...

Superannuation assets inch to nearly $4.8tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2026
... "mega-funds" each with assets of more than $100 billion are set to dominate within the next few years. As for corporate funds, the study forecasts the remaining two will eventually move into public offer industry funds or retail master trusts that are ...

Super funds failing on death benefit comms: SCA

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2026
... for the government to make this mandatory for all funds." The findings come after SCA recently released a mystery shopping study of 20 major super fund call centres, which found on average, the customer satisfaction score did not clear 49.9%. This study ...

SMC questions SCA's 'mystery caller' report

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2026
... telephone enquiries, or 50 'mystery shopping' calls to 20 super funds between 7 August to 15 October 2025. This study examined how frontline service providers engaged with three customer enquiry scenarios: prospective customers (40% of calls) ...

AustralianSuper ups admin fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2026
... Consumers Australia (SCA) called out AustralianSuper and Team Super for failing to answer 90% of calls in a mystery shopper study. Team Super answered just half (52%) of phone calls compared to the industry average of 87%. On the admin fee increase ...
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