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Scientific Beta offers portfolio solution to institutional investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
... mechanism-it's a precision tool." Scientific Beta said the need to bridge portfolio imbalances has been highlighted in recent times as US growth stocks, led by the so-called 'Magnificent Seven', have dramatically outperformed value stocks, which has ...

Bombora Advice appoints new chair, managing director

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
... senior team, I am committed to building on Bombora's marketplace reputation and presence," Handley said. "These are exciting times and the strategic business opportunities for Bombora are immense. I'm looking forward to positioning the organisation for ...

Managed fund inflows jump over 20x: Report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
Managed funds domiciled in Australia received $8.6 billion in inflows from January to May this year, over 20 times the level recorded over the same period last year, according to global funds network Calastone. Calastone said local investors appeared ...

Dodgy dentist defrauds members after draining super for medical procedures

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
... procedures. They were sold false hope through aggressive social media advertising and quick access to super." The Sunday Times reports that up to $2.3 million in patient pre-payments remain unaccounted for by Hurst Group, the company used to manage Perth ...

ASIC reads the riot act to the super industry: Longo

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... waiting..." Not a single trustee in that review bothered to monitor or report on end-to-end death benefit claims handling times, nor did they have performance objectives for these times. Many also neglected to track how long claims sat in limbo, leaving ...

Investors face headwinds in integrating physical climate risks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
While investors are increasingly factoring physical climate risks into their decision making, there are several challenges to doing so, a review of public funds' experience has found. A new report from CPP Investments and thinktank OMFIF looks at how ...

Telegram pump and dump schemers plead guilty

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... the public Telegram group known as 'ASX Pump and Dump Group.' The names of stocks were shared to the group nine times over a three-week period in September 2021. Each of the defendants in this case purchased some but not all the stocks they conspired ...

Up to two million Aussies could face super tax: FSC

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... be the $2 million threshold with no indexation scenario, affecting a staggering 1.8 million Australians, more than three times Labor's proposition. Ultimately, the FSC saidthe decision to index the tax will impose "significant impact" on younger Australians. ...

HESTA turns the lights back on after service shutdown

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
... and claims and switch investment options. However, although online services have resumed, HESTA advised that processing times for some transactions may initially take longer than usual. That's because its team is still working through requests received ...

Australia's billionaire boom branded 'morally wrong' by Oxfam

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... retail, investments, and mining/resources. Oxfam also revealed that the average 'Rich Lister' now holds more than 116,000 times the wealth of an Australian in the bottom 50%. Notably, the average wealth of someone in the bottom 50% of the wealth spectrum ...