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AMP announces senior hire for North

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2025
... continue to strengthen our relationships with advisers and partners, and deliver great outcomes for their clients." In October, AMP reported a rise of 61.6% in its platform net cashflows to $1.2 billion, up from $750 million last year. Platform assets ...

The Big Short's Michael Burry shutters fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
... heartfelt thanks, but also with apologies, I wish you well in your future investments," he wrote to investors in late October. Filings show that Scion Asset Management is no longer registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. At the end of ...

Macquarie terminates more options

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
... Watershed Income options will close in mid-December. Macquarie's own Concentrated Australian Real Estate ceased on October 31. Meanwhile, three of Portfolio Planners' options - Balanced Growth, High Growth and High Income Portfolio - currently ...

SQM Research faces court over 'favourable' rating of Shield

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... Shield, ASIC said. ASIC is seeking both declarations and civil penalties from the court. SQM Research published reports in October 2021, March 2022 and October 2022, that rated the different classes of Shield as 3.75 stars, which is considered favourable. ...

Mercer Investments shutters four options

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2025
... Management recently flagged that it will shed more than 240 actively managed and passive funds on its Wrap platform. On October 24, Macquarie closed off 243 funds that invest across a myriad of asset classes "to new investments and all automated plans ...

HESTA, Vision Super divest Israeli securities

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
... requests for comment for this article. The two super funds did not confirm whether the move was sparked by the events of 7 October 2023 that has led to the deaths of about 67,000, according to media reports, but could be as high as 377,000 Palestinians ...

Top Regal Partners exec departs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
... years on the derivatives and structured sales desk within the institutional client group. "Having joined the business in October 2019 when we had $1.5 billion under management, today the firm stands as an ASX-listed, globally recognised institutional ...

Prime Super fined over tobacco exclusion claims

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
... annual report. The fund claimed manufacturers of tobacco products were "excluded entirely" from the fund. However, between October 2023 and June 2025 the fund was indirectly invested in six different tobacco manufacturers. They were Altria Group, British ...

Payday Super laws passed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2025
... delay in the start date for small business with less than 20 employees. A proposed amendment was squashed in a vote on October 30. "While the principle of Payday Super is sound, Labor's execution is anything but. Once again, we're seeing a rushed ...

Phillip Lowe to chair ASX Advisory Group

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2025
... Phillip Lowe as chair of the newly formed Advisory Group on Corporate Governance (AGCG). Per the recommendations made in the October expert review panel's report, the AGCG was established to replace the ASX Corporate Governance Council. Lowe brings decades ...