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Equity Trustees slashes value of Shield investments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2025
Equity Trustees has marked down the value of units held in the Shield Master Fund by as much as 75%, as victims petition the government for $5 million to start a recovery fund. The Save Our Super campaign, comprising victims of the Shield Master Fund ...

Australia maintains global retirement security ranking: Natixis

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2025
... finances in retirement but has improved, or remained steady, across health, quality of life and material wellbeing. Even though Australia maintained its top ten spot, 53% of Australians said it was a miracle to retire securely, a 5% jump from 2023. Natixis ...

Zenith reaffirms Metrics ratings amid doubts

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2025
Zenith Investment Partners has reaffirmed all ratings for Metrics Credit Partners' funds following the recent downgrades by another research house. Two of Metrics' funds were downgraded by Lonsec over governance concerns earlier this month. ...

Future Fund achieves 12.2% in FY25, tops other instos

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
Australia's sovereign wealth fund beat the returns of other institutional investors by achieving 12.2% p.a. in the last financial year and in the same breath boosted assets to a new high of $252.3 billion. Global equities from developed markets, which ...

Female fund managers' triumphant decade: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
... the "pace-setters", Citywire said. Spain remains the country with the highest proportion of women fund managers at 22%, though the figure was down 1% compared with the previous year. However, funds run exclusively by women in Spain are higher, standing ...

NZ Super delivers 11.84%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2025
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has delivered a pre-tax return of 11.84% after costs for the year ended 30 June 2025. Total fund size was up $8.4 billion from a year earlier, ending the 2025 financial year at $85.1 billion. Guardians of New Zealand ...

FEATURE: Hyped up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... employees, monitoring and reporting, and governance, along with costs around maintenance and expert advice. On the benefit side, though, Davis sees most state-of-the-art GenAI models in an enterprise system delivering accuracy rates of about 80%. Among ...

Government scraps inquiry into advice firm failures, Dixon Advisory

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
... the many clients involved will likely feel betrayed and dismayed that they have lost money and "it doesn't appear as though anyone is interested in finding out why." "Finally, the findings from this inquiry would have been relevant to help inform ...

Inflation hits highest level in over a year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
... data does not entirely rule out further RBA rate cuts. "It's still quite possible that the RBA cuts rates in November, though it's no longer the done deal we previously believed. It will, as was the case in August, come down to the next quarterly ...

Insignia Financial back in the black

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
... were up 73% to $27 million. Much of this was due to operating expenses dropping after the Rhombus Advisory separation, though the group said these savings were offset by increases in salaries and adviser incentives over the period. It said a focus on ...