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Key roles vacant as NZ Super prepares for growth

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
... including Australia's Future Fund. "It enhances the TPA framework by ensuring specialist expertise in-house improves our analysis of competing investment opportunities, which is fundamental to the TPA style of management," the spokesperson added. ...

Norway wealth fund told to pause ethical divestments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
... artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in its management of climate risk and company engagements. "Cross-company pattern analysis will help prioritise companies for effective engagement," the fund said. So far in 2025, NBIM has 1439 ongoing company engagements ...

Private credit funds downplay risks, pose risk to financial system: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... verification." Research houses tend to prioritise governance structures and investment strategy over direct credit risk analysis and lack standardisation in valuations, which ASIC flagged is "raising concerns about transparency and consistency." Further ...

Financial Standard managing editor wins Journalist of the Year Award

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2025
... public. Williamson's achievements demonstrate accuracy, clarity, original reporting, and continues to provide in-depth analysis of policy and regulation. Her work is also lauded for the tangible impact made on the public's understanding, particularly ...

Canadian pension giant sued over alleged climate failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... impacts. CPP Investments uses the Morgan Stanley Capital International Climate Value at Risk (MSCI CVaR) model for scenario analysis, which "has been criticised and rejected by other financial actors for not credibly assessing physical risks", the filing ...

Shield, First Guardian fallout calls for tougher scrutiny on research houses, licensee governance

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... it is unlikely they'll be the last," he continued. "Research should provide due diligence on the fund and the manager, analysis of the fund's strategy, processes and compliance, relationships to and with third parties, and conflicts within the management ...

ASX releases consultation on shareholder approval requirements

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
... consultation process allows for a diversity of perspectives and allows for further engagement. The paper includes a comparative analysis of the rule settings for dilutive acquisitions and significant transactions on other exchanges. It also presents ...

Rest Super team defects to Channel Capital

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... managers manage operational complexity, reduce risk, and make more confident investment decisions through independent expert analysis and advice. Group managing director Glen Holding said operational oversight is a strategic imperative at Channel. "As ...

Ausbil lists two global ETFs on ASX

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
... attractive valuations," Ausbil co-portfolio manager Tobias Bucks said. "We employ a blend of both qualitative and quantitative analysis and a disciplined risk management process in this increasingly popular sector." Meanwhile, the Ausbil Global Essential ...

Morningstar calls out platform TDPs' use of rebates

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025
Analysis by Morningstar calls out a significant number of platform trustee-directed products (TDPs) were able to pass the recent superannuation performance test by tweaking rebates. Morningstar's report Putting the performance test to the test shows ...