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Insignia Financial posts strong quarter

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... Financial delivered a strong first quarter for FY26, with funds under management and administration now exceeding $340 billion. Over the period, the business saw total net inflows of $1.0 billion, driven by $1.3 billion of net inflows into Wrap and $448 ...

Feature: Retirement | Rewarding risk

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... evolution" of annuity style products which have been easier to understand and provided more clarity on accessing the Age Pension. Over the next 10 years or so he anticipates the further development of more fit for purpose income products, to the point ...

Feature: Group insurance | Cold comfort

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... the trustees' control. Just 48% of claims were paid within 90 days. The most horrifying finding? A trustee that took over 500 days to pay a claim to a grieving widow and failed to respond to her financial hardship concerns. In November 2024, ASIC ...

APAC insurers favour multi-alternatives strategies: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... includes responses from life insurers across the world, highlighted that 30% are increasing their private markets allocation over the next 12 months. Close to three-in-five (58%) are satisfied with their current exposure to private markets, while smaller ...

Pinnacle acquires stake in Advantage Partners

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... Advantage Partners, a private equity investor from Japan, for $92 million. Pinnacle will own up to 13% of Advantage Partners over a three-year period. The first stage will acquire a 5% stake for $92 million and an option for another 8% thereafter. The ...

WAM takes over PIA board, vows to lift underperformance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
Wilson Asset Management (WAM) has successfully taken over the board of the Pengana International Equities (PIA) LIC in the hope of overhauling its investment strategy amid continued underperformance. WAM's Geoff Wilson and Jesse Hamilton, and Richard ...

Adviser banned after $11.3m loss

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
ASIC confirmed it permanently banned WA-based adviser Noel Northcott in April, over concerns it had around Northcott's involvement in the Noon Investment Fund and the Quant Fund, after a ruling by Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) allowed the regulator ...

ASIC slaps MWL adviser with ban over Shield involvement

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
ASIC has banned Wade Spooner of Melbourne for eight years for advising his clients to invest their superannuation into the Shield Master Fund while he was an authorised representative of MWL Financial Services. Spooner, also a member of MWL's investment ...

'We have entered a new economic era': CBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) chief economist Luke Yeaman has warned investors that the world has entered a "new economic era" where the rules are "very different", in his most recent economic update. "Things that have been disdained in recent decades are ...

Australian Ethical appoints chief operating officer

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... Australian Retirement Trust on a transformation program. Prior, he was chief investment officer at Aboriginal Investment for over a year. He also served as chief risk officer at Colonial First State (CFS) for two years following the separation from Commonwealth ...