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SMC chair takes on more board duties

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2026
... Climate Leaders Coalition, chair of Queensland Airports, the chancellor of Queensland University of Technology, and non-executive director for National Australia Bank. Minister for housing, homelessness and cities Clare O'Neil welcomed Sherry's appointment. ...

Iress sharpens tech integration to reduce adviser admin burden

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2026
... for signing directly from Xplan and automatically archive executed documents back into the client file. Annature chief executive Corey Cacic said: "Our integration with Iress Xplan means we can now automate processes that were previously manual, while ...

FEATURE | Managed accounts | Industrialising advice

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2026
... sitting under the managed accounts wrapper. Speaking at a recent industry event, Generation Development Group (GDG) chief executive Grant Hackett also points to the tax advantage for direct assets sitting under managed accounts. "If you're buying ...

MUFG to acquire GROW Inc

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2026
... more tailored approaches to technology, administration and member experience," MUFG Pension & Market Services chief executive and managing director Vivek Bhatia said. "The proposed acquisition of GROW Inc would complement our existing capabilities and ...

APRA hits 12 super options with failed grade

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2026
... fund to make the failures list. BUSSQ returned 7.04% p.a. and underperformed the benchmark by 0.57% p.a. BUSSQ chief executive Damian Wills said the fund has taken the result seriously and has been focused on improving outcomes for members. "We acknowledge ...

Vanguard to acquire custodian Altruist

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2026
... from the likes of Insight Partners, GIC, Venrock and Salesforce Ventures. Bill McNabb, who was Vanguard's chief executive until 2017, sits on Altruist's board. "We've had the benefit of getting to get to know Altruist's people, platform ...

FAAA pushes to expand NCA to financial advisers

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2026
... government's direction, but we'll be advocating very strongly for that to come off in three years' time," FAAA chief executive Sarah Abood said. Abood added the industry needs to be very careful about the scope of the New Class of Adviser ...

Capital Group makes C-suite appointment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2026
Capital Group has named a new chief information officer to be based in California and set to take on the role in November. Guillermo Veiga will take on the role, succeeding Marta Zarraga, who will retire at the end of the year. Veiga will relocate to ...

Centuria steps away from joint-chief executive model

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2026
Centuria Capital will be led solely by Jason Huljich from November 27, who will take the role of group chief executive, after joint chief executive John McBain decided to step down from the role, which will also come into effect on the same date. Centuria ...

ASIC, APRA urge finance sector to demonstrate AI threat response

VINNY VUCAGO  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2026
ASIC and APRA have called on financial services firms to move beyond awareness of frontier artificial intelligence (AI) risks and demonstrate they can respond to threats unfolding at unprecedented speed. The regulators' warning follows nine industry ...