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Impact Alpha Partners boosts team ahead of new strategy launch

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2026
... governance board at Real Asset Capital Partners, sits on the trustee board of Qualitas Securities, and serves as an independent director at Netwealth Super. Incidentally, Bearman rejoins ex-colleague and Blue Orbit chief executive Adam Randall, who joined ...

Super moves: Top super funds lose key risk executives

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2026
... market and financial risk analytics, model validation, and stress-testing at Suncorp Group. Earlier, he managed the independent investment risk and compliance function across all managed asset classes at QIC. Horn's early career included roles as ...

ASIC imposes licence conditions on Cambridge Mercantile

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2026
... business' compliance failures and remediate the misclassified retail clients. The company will also have to appoint an independent expert to report on the adequacy of its remediation plan, including its remediation of the misclassified clients. The ...

RBA veteran leads AOFM review

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2026
A Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) veteran has been appointed to lead an independent review into the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM). Treasury of the Secretary Jenny Wilkinson commissioned the independent review after it was requested ...

CBA updates on class actions, governance review

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2026
... APRA's final report into CBA was published in May 2018, but over the following years, CBA had IBM Consulting act as an independent reviewer to ensure the bank addressing all APRA's recommendations. Today, CBA published the outcomes of that monitoring. ...

FIIG Securities fined $2.5m for lengthy cyber failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2026
... Federal Court to pay a penalty of $2.5 million as well as $500,000 towards ASIC's legal costs. FIIG must also engage an independent expert to undertake a compliance programme in relation to its cybersecurity measures and processes. "Cyber-attacks and ...

RBA gives bleak economic outlook

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2026
... is whether it did towards the end of last year, pushing up inflation higher than anyone would like and causing the independent Reserve Bank to hike interest rates during the course of last week," Chalmers said. "Now, the point that the governor made... ...

Challenger-led consortium bids for Pepper Money

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2026
... informed in accordance with its continuous disclosure obligations," Challenger added. Pepper Money said it established an independent board committee (IBC) to assess the proposal. The IBC has granted Challenger a period of exclusivity to undertake its ...

KKR splashes $603m on HMC platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2026
... operates farm infrastructure for Australia's poultry supply chain. KKR also moved to acquire Zenith Energy, a local independent power producer, from a consortium that included Pacific Equity Partners, OPSEU Pension Trust and Foresight Group, for ...

Deadline approaches for Shield, First Guardian victims

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2026
... high-risk products that were never right for them," O'Halloran said. "Take Your Super Back is about giving people clear, independent information so they can understand what happened and take action before it's too late. "The fact that only a small fraction ...