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New research from Investment Magazine publisher Conexus Financial and CoreData has found widespread lack of progress on improving member experience and retirement preparedness levels in the profit-to-member super industry despite persistent warnings from regulators. The revelation comes as the peak body for industry funds calls for mandatory service standards to be fast-tracked.
Lachlan MaddockJuly 15, 2025
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Investments
UniSuper CIO says ‘more bullets to fire’ as fund mulls US exposure
The $140 billion UniSuper is “hoarding cash” as it faces down choppy markets and the potential for spiking inflation. Chief investment officer John Pearce is also considering whether it’s time to trim back the fund’s US holdings but says suggestions of an end to US exceptionalism are exaggerated and premature.
Simon HoyleJuly 10, 2025
Technology
Why super funds must ‘break the barrier’ of silence on cyberattacks
Both the risk and impact of cyberattacks can be reduced by super funds more formally sharing information with each about incidents, but historical concerns about brand and reputation damage hold the industry back.
Lachlan MaddockJuly 10, 2025
Investments
Brighter eyes property, infrastructure to weather stormy market conditions
The $34 billion Brighter Super is working on enhancing the resilience of its portfolio, making “strategic” moves in its active equity management program and adding more property to its Queensland Investment Strategy.
Lachlan MaddockJuly 8, 2025
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Insurance in Super Summit
13 August, 2025
Retirement Conference
21 - 23 October, 2025
Fiduciary Investors Symposium
Leadership
2025 Insurance in Super Summit
What the super industry can learn about leadership under pressure
A willingness to make tough decisions in difficult circumstances characterises the careers of both former Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan AC and the neurosurgeon Dr Charlie Teo, and will provide the Investment Magazine Insurance in Super Summit with insights into the secrets of effective leadership in a challenging environment.
Simon HoyleJuly 7, 2025
Profiles
How Future Group built ‘a culture designed to fly’
The $16 billion Future Group punches above its weight when it comes to forming public opinion and shaping policy on sustainability and ESG issues. Chief investment officer Ed Tomlinson says a trust-based team approach and an ongoing commitment to allowing employees to work from home help it to foster the values it needs to be effective.
Simon HoyleApril 2, 2025
Profiles
Hostplus admits global fundie woes pose risk to external manager strategy
Hostplus chief investment officer Sam Sicilia has declared that for as long as he and chief executive David Elia are overseeing the $110 billion fund, there will be no investment internalisation. However, he acknowledges that if the institutional asset manager business model comes too much under pressure, it poses risks and instability to Hostplus’ externalisation model.
Darcy SongSeptember 10, 2024
Member engagement
Retirement
Three years after RIC, everybody must do more to solve retirement
Relying on super funds to fully embrace their obligations under the Retirement Income Covenant (RIC) will leave significant parts of the industry wallowing with partially developed retirement income strategies a decade after the RIC was introduced. Policymakers and regulators need to do more to help move the industry forward or risk the process slowing to a crawl.
David Bell and Geoff WarrenJune 30, 2025
Governance
Former Qantas Super boss takes CIO reins at Rest
Michael Clancy will preside over the circa $93 billion Rest Super’s 140-strong investment team as it looks to grow its membership and assets under management over the next decade. He is expected to bring a managerial bent to a role that has often had a pure investment focus.
Lachlan MaddockMay 21, 2025
Governance
APRA sets the clock ticking on trustee director tenure
A package of proposals designed to improve governance of APRA-regulated entities sets lifetime tenure limit of 10 years for super fund trustee directors. It also aims to substantially beef up monitoring and enforcement of director competence, skills and propriety, and challenge board appointments when it believes individuals aren’t fit to serve.
Simon HoyleMarch 6, 2025
Industry and regulation
Industry & regulation
AustralianSuper pushes back on more private markets regulation
The country's largest super fund says that private markets aren’t “inherently riskier” and that the current approach to regulation and data collection for super funds should be maintained even as ASIC and APRA focus more closely on how they invest in opaque and illiquid assets.
Lachlan MaddockJune 26, 2025
Analysis
Super funds and asset managers at odds over private asset oversight
Submissions to ASIC’s discussion paper on public and private markets highlight a glaring contradiction: super funds, created and nurtured by regulation that has propelled them to more than $3 trillion in assets under management, oppose new regulations that would enhance safeguards around how those assets are managed.
Brendan SwiftJuly 4, 2025
Investments
‘An awful lot of icing on the cake’: ART’s unexpected windfall boosts 2024 returns
It was “a good year to be invested here” for the $330 billion Australian Retirement Trust, which has leaned on domestic quiet achievers – and some less quiet achievers – to power its returns.
Lachlan MaddockJuly 1, 2025