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CEFC invests $35m in Starling Energy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2025
... Australian households, while enhancing grid reliability and reducing energy costs, and takes total commitments made through the program to more than $380 million. CEFC chief executive Ian Learmonth said: "As Australia transitions to a more decentralised ...

Financially savvy Australians can add $1.2tn to wealth: Research

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
New research has found that if all Australians were to reach a level of advanced financial capability, it could uplift aggregate household wealth by $1.2 trillion, equal to $122,950 per household. The Big Lift report by Deloitte in collaboration with ...

FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
In the book The Lucky Country, the late author Donald Horne provides a piercing assessment of Australia in 1964, stating that its prosperity is derived from good fortune rather than industriousness or ambition. He ruminated about the future challenges ...

Top Koda Capital exec exits

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... senior leadership roles, including general manager of AMP Advice, head of adviser advocacy during a major transformation program, and managing director of Charter Financial Planning. Earlier in her career, she held leadership positions at Commonwealth ...

AustralianSuper axes mid risk role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... last month amid speculation the $387 billion fund is moving away from a primarily internally managed direct investments program across those asset classes. The team comprises three executives, including Melville, plus one support person. AustralianSuper ...

Former Pendal insto lead quits Citi

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
Citi's institutional sales head is leaving for the nation's largest bank to manage key relationships with superannuation funds, sponsors, asset managers and insurers. Nicki Ashton is set to join Commonwealth Bank as a global relationship manager ...

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%) ...

FX coaching platform handed additional conditions over compliance failures

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2025
ASIC has imposed additional licence conditions on Learn to Trade (LTT) after it failed to comply with financial services laws over delayed lodgement, commanding it to appoint a consultant to review the business. LTT was granted an AFSL in January 2010 ...

CalSTRS secures US$190m settlement against Meta

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2025
... lawsuit was a significant driver behind the improvements. Other changes it will make include enhancing its whistleblower program with more specific language around privacy law violations and Meta's privacy policies, and Meta will report identified issues ...

Entireti partners with Striver to shore up talent

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2025
Entireti has partnered with specialist wealth management and talent development platform Striver to launch a program that supports the next generation of financial advisers. The initiative will streamline high quality graduates and job seekers into ...