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Chalmers opens Investor Front Door pilot

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
The government has launched the pilot program for the Investor Front Door, which aims to make it quicker and easier for investors to back major projects. Treasurer Jim Chalmers said it is designed to improve the investment environment by streamlining ...

Former United Global Capital adviser banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2025
Former United Global Capital (UGC) adviser Milutin Petrovic is banned for six years after ASIC found he failed key advice obligations when recommending clients invest their retirement savings into the Global Capital Property Fund Limited (GCPF). Petrovic ...

Clime investments chief resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2025
Clime Investment Management's chief investment officer has resigned from the post three years after being appointed. Will Riggall tendered his resignation in June. He also exits as a director of the ASX-listed firm, a role he was appointed to last ...

Shield-linked advice firm director, compliance manager banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025
The AFSL of MWL Financial Services has been cancelled, while both its director and its compliance manager have copped bans after they allegedly helped funnel more than $150 million in investments into the Shield Master Fund. MWL recommended Shield to ...

Perpetual flags 'uncertainty' over wealth management sale

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025
Perpetual took a slight hit in underlying profit after tax - down 1% to $204.1 million - flagging outflows in the asset management business and a softer performance in wealth management due to "uncertainty" surrounding its ownership. Despite the uncertainty ...

NGS Super readies for admin transformation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
After close to a year-long delay, NGS Super will begin transferring its administration services to GROW Inc. in October. In May 2024, NGS Super announced it was ending a long-standing administration services arrangement with Mercer, instead handing ...

Performance test review to allow funds to 'innovate'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief executive Mary Delahunty has welcomed the Treasurer's review of the superannuation performance test, saying modernising the test will provide the certainty and flexibility funds need ...

APRA sets higher cybersecurity expectations for trustees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
Trustees' cyber-resilience is riding high on APRA's enforcement agenda over the next four years, but in the short term the regulator warned it will escalate action where necessary if they cannot prove to have basic measures in place. The prudential ...

Unemployment falls, more women enter the workforce

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 4.2% in July, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). "With employment rising by 25,000 people and the number of unemployed decreasing by 10,000 people, the unemployment rate ...

Super board moves: ART, Aware, Brighter Super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
August is a season for reporting - and board appointments. Three major super funds ART, Aware and Brighter Super announce their latest additions. At Australian Retirement Trust (ART), multiple chair appointee Anthony Lynham will join the board on August ...