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AMP, Insignia, Bendigo products fail super performance test

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
AMP, Insignia Financial and Bendigo SmartStart are the only superannuation fund providers whose platform trustee-directed products (TDP) failed APRA's latest performance test. Only seven out of the 563 products that APRA tested failed in its latest ...

APRA sets higher cybersecurity expectations for trustees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
... failure within entity systems, processes and dependencies," APRA wrote in its newly published 2025-26 Corporate Plan. At a media briefing yesterday, APRA chair John Lonsdale said that super funds are "making progress" on implementing MFA. "We've ...

Vision Super divests G8 Education over abuse charges

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... sold down, was valued at about $3.3 million; the fund has also asked its investment managers not to hold the stock. "The media coverage of the incidents at G8 Education has been deeply disturbing, and our thoughts are with the children and their families. ...

Iress hunts for new chief, takeover talks progress

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... leadership update comes as Blackstone and Thoma Bravo express interest in acquiring Iress. The company recently confirmed media speculation surrounding this. Iress said it remains "open to further engagement" with its potential acquirers, which are still ...

FICAP RockStar returns to The Beresford in 2025

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
... Matthew Leung recently joined the FICAP committee to further support the initiative. Financial Standard is the official media partner of FICAP and is owned by ISS Market Intelligence.

CBA sets aside $52m for remediation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) said it has provisioned $52 million for remediation purposes as it finalises various class actions, including those related to superannuation and advice. CBA said the group is still defending two superannuation class ...

Norway sovereign wealth fund divests 11 Israeli companies, cuts mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... 377,000 Palestinians are unaccounted for since October 2023. This significantly outweighs the death toll reported in the media as provided by the Gaza Health Ministry of about 60,000. "We have long paid particular attention to companies associated with ...

Iress deputy chief made redundant, takeover talks confirmed

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2025
... divestment of Iress' Superannuation business. We wish Harry all the best for the future." Separately, Iress has addressed media speculation that it is a takeover target of Blackstone and Thoma Bravo. Iress confirmed that it has considered an offer by ...

CSC quashes internal bullying, sexism claims

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2025
Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC) chair Janet Torney has rejected suggestions that bullying, harassment or sexism are improperly handled by the organisation. Torney responded to reporting by the Australian Financial Review that CSC received ...

Four men charged over sophisticated bond scam

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
Four residents of Victoria have been charged with a slew of money laundering offences for allegedly using fake social media advertisement and investment comparison sites to help run a bond scam. ASIC alleges that between January and July 2021, Dimitrios ...