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Cbus appoints chief financial officer

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
... officer and chief financial officer at StatePlus Super between 2013 and 2017 to lead its five-year strategic plan to accelerate growth before transitioning to Aware Super for seven years as group executive finance, strategy and transformation, where ...

APAC investors push for 24-hour trading in US markets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2025
A new whitepaper by DTCC explores the implications of US markets switching to a 24x5 trading schedule, allowing investors to trade 24 hours a day, five days a week. The paper said global demand, especially from APAC investors, and regulatory permissibility ...

Life insurers to up external fund manager mandates: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
... costs were ranked as the two least important factors. "The use of third-party asset managers across APAC is set to accelerate as insurers become increasingly comfortable with the practice and seek specialised expertise for complex private market investments," ...

AZ NGA partners with Sydney Financial Planning

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2025
Advice platform AZ Next Generation Advisory (AZ NGA) has partnered with Sydney Financial Planning to grow the firm's presence. Through this collaboration, AZ NGA will expand its reach in the eastern suburbs, where Sydney Financial Planning bases its ...

CEFC invests $35m in Starling Energy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2025
... Group, which operates via its retail brand Plico. CEFC said the investment will help reduce household energy bills and accelerate the rollout of Virtual Power Plant (VPP) services, underpinned by the uptake of Plico's solar and battery systems across ...

ASX suffers another outage

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025
... "make foundational changes to its governance, culture and risk management processes". The RBA said the ASX must also accelerate its uplift of operational and financial risk management, while meeting key milestones for its major technology projects. "ASX ...

Inflation hits 3.8% in October

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2025
Inflation rose 3.8% in the year to October, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), beating market expectations of 3.6%. The largest contributors to annual inflation were housing (+5.9%), clothing and footwear (5.4%), education (5.4%) ...

MLC Super adds advice, education head

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2025
... banking sector, including Westpac, KPMG, NAB, and ANZ. "Their expertise and deep understanding of the industry will accelerate our ability to deliver on our strategy and provide exceptional outcomes for members around Australia," Woodall said. "These ...

T. Rowe and Oak Hill launch flexible credit income fund

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025
... approximately US$108 billion in alternative credit assets globally. T. Rowe Price acquired OHA in December 2021 to accelerate its expansion into alternative markets.

Prevention of Shield, First Guardian-like events the focus from here on: Mulino

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... identification numbers, and there is much potential in data matching to pick up some of these [measures], and we want to accelerate that," she said. "But of course, the biggest focus now is on the platforms. If I'm one of them, what are the rules that ...