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Vale Ken Atchison

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2025
... sophisticated investors." Atchison's career began with Towers Perrin as a consultant. He established Atchison Consultants in February 2001 with the focus on providing advice and analysis to financial institutions, superannuation, insurance funds ...

Former Selfwealth chief lands new gig

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
... Selfwealth was acquired by Syfe, a wealth management platform operating across Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia, in February.

Schroders Australia chief executive to retire, successor named

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... search, UBS Asset Management country head Australia and New Zealand Alison Telfer will succeed Doyle as chief executive in February 2026. In relation to Telfer's departure, UBS Australasia joint country head and chief operating officer Nick Hughes ...

RBA on hold but 'not as hawkish as feared'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... If inflation proves more persistent than forecast, we expect the RBA to lean more heavily into a hawkish tone at the February [2026] meeting," Allen said. "It remains our expectation that economic growth will return to around trend rates, unemployment ...

Chris Marco sentenced to prison over $34m fraud

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2025
... executive assistant, Linda Marissen, enabled or aided Marco to defraud more than $29.5 million from six investors between February 2014 and October 2018. Marissen was charged with 34 counts of enabling or aiding fraud in 2023 for her involvement, but ...

Senior investment professional departs Rest Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2025
... with the super fund, Duff will step down from her role as head of fixed income in late November and work part-time until February 2026. The super fund said it is considering the next steps for the leadership of the fixed-income team. Duff joined Rest ...

ASIC labels digital assets as financial products

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2025
... no-action position until 30 June 2026. The no-action position was informed by feedback from the earlier submissions in February to Consultation Paper 381 Updates to INFO 225: Digital Assets: Financial Products and Services (CP 381). "ASIC's guidance ...

Housing Australia Future Fund under audit

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2025
... establishment of 18,650 social and affordable homes, yet there is no confirmation that any homes have been built. In February 2024, Cbus, CareSuper, Hostplus, Rest and IFM Investors announced they would be working together to deploy capital through HAFF. ...

Kenya to establish sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... rates, floods and uncertainty resulting in protests and reduced spending. According to the World Bank, in the 12 months to February 2025 its account deficit narrowed to 3.1% of GDP on the back of a rebound in exports of agricultural products. The World ...

Court blocks Merhi from financial services

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... Merhi, who was also the principal of Venture Egg and Financial Services Group Australia (FSGA), had his assets frozen in February and has not been able to leave the country since July. Between 2020 and 2024, Merhi and other advisers allegedly advised ...