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AMP upgrades North

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2025
... before it goes anywhere. So, there's a human that will need to move and understand these things," Batsakis said. With plans to launch early in the new year, the North Interactive Wealth portal seeks to support an emerging profession that appears ...

Natixis, Generali call off $3.2tn joint venture talks

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
Natixis Investment Managers and Generali Investment Holdings (GIH) have decided to call off their plans for a joint venture, citing conditions not ripe to reach a final agreement. Natixis' owner BPCE and GIH's parent company Generali said they ...

South Korea looks to Australia for next sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... approved by the Fair Trade Commission, it said. It is expected the National Growth Fund will begin investing in early 2026. Plans for the fund have been in the works for some time, with the fund originally to total $100 billion in assets. However, in ...

Brighter Super names acting CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... Whitehaven Private Portfolios. Following the announcement of his September departure as investment chief, Rider has confirmed plans to take a break. After that, the LGIAsuper and Energy Super investment chief, who was appointed in early 2022 during the ...

Super moves: AustralianSuper, UniSuper, Team Super, CFS, TAL

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... the fund's Melbourne office. "It's an extremely exciting time to be joining the business, with ambitious growth plans for the future," he said. Meanwhile, Max Finkel, a private markets analyst at UniSuper, has joined industry fund-owned IFM Investors ...

APRA consults on CPS 230 amendments

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
... paragraphs 54, 55, 56(d), 57, 58(a) and 58(c) of CPS 230. APRA is inviting submissions until 30 January 2026. APRA said it plans to finalise the targeted changes to CPS 230 ahead of the 1 July 2026 compliance date. APRA said this is intended to streamline ...

ASIC sues Diversa for First Guardian failures

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
... ongoing monitoring. Members of the Powerwrap Fund, Praemium Fund, and MAP Master Superannuation Plan together with its sub-plans, YourChoice Super and AusPrac, were exposed to First Guardian between 2020 to 2024. Diversa, as trustee of the super funds ...

Boman Group scores licence to expand China investments

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
... China's growth story, while building a stronger financial bridge between Australia and China." Using the new licence, it plans to introduce around $200 million (RMB $1 billion) of overseas institutional capital in its initial phase. It said this capital ...

Wentworth launches private credit platform

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025
... the business. WPC is backed by Hong Kong-based alternative investment platform Sun Hung Kai & Co. Limited (SHK). The firm plans to provide initial funding and additional capital as the business grows. The platform aims to fill a gap in the Australian ...

Record investment into AI forcing largest innovation buildout ever: BlackRock

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025
... globally through 2030, most of that in the US, and the challenge for investors is to reconcile the huge capital spending plans with the potential AI revenues, BlackRock said. "Even if spending and revenues reconcile at the macro level, there is still ...