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ANSC's Australian Food & Agriculture takeover tanks

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
... chief executive of ANSC. He is the founder and managing director of Impact Ag Partners, which invests in agriculture as a nature and climate solution. Impact Ag has assets and teams across Australia and North America.

Cyberattacks on super funds expose 'critical vulnerability'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2025
... affecting super funds have caused concern. However, he said the fund's experience of the event had been different in both nature and impact to what's been reported. "We acknowledge that a spike in suspicious activity was recorded by the fund ...

Russell Investments, Reach Alts team up to expand private market access

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
... quarterly asset valuations, following a one-year lock-up period. The structure is intended to align with the long-term nature and lower liquidity of infrastructure assets, compared to equities, while affording investors stable growth potential. Russell ...

RBA and ASIC slam the ASX: 'Deeply disappointed'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2025
... risks were realised in this major operational incident." The regulators also highlighted their concern about the speed and nature of ASX's remediation actions following the initial incident. In response, the RBA has taken the unprecedented step of reassessing ...

Tranche 2 of DBFO dumps SOAs, enables 'nudges'

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
... identify and manage any risks." Provided the trustee follows the guidelines, the advice will not be considered personal in nature. This round of draft legislation is open for consultation until May 2. Further reforms related to the Best Interests Duty ...

Active Super fined $10.5m for greenwashing

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2025
... fund's "contraventions were serious" after it benefitted from its misleading conduct by misrepresenting the "ethical" nature of a significant part of its investments, following the guilty verdict handed down last June. This enhanced its ability to ...

Super doesn't have to be 'boring', but innovation is key

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2025
... Australia's major financial firms are working towards catching up to other industries, there is still some way to go and the nature of who they are hiring has changed substantially. "We have to look forward. This market is evolving so quickly, and it ...

UniSuper waters down 'volatile' environmental option

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... change will be lowering the threshold for companies to qualify for inclusion in the strategy. "Due to the concentrated nature of GEO's investment universe, its investment returns have been volatile," UniSuper said. "UniSuper has been exploring ways ...

Monetary policy not the only game in town: Brian Redican

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
... the final cost going to be? I'm sure it will be a lot more than the initial estimate - that's because of the inflationary nature of this type of spending," Redican said. He added that it won't matter whether the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cuts or ...

Super's operational infrastructure 'not quite right'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
... on the report." The report said, despite an understanding that there are issues with operational development, the exact nature and depth of any problems are not very visible. "There is a need for both the authorities and super fund boards to get to the ...