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FAAA says super trustees should stump up for CSLR

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2026
The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) has called on Treasury to cut the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR) special levy on the advice sector to zero and for superannuation trustees to stump up for the scheme. Treasury recently commenced ...

AMP Super launches new app

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2026
AMP Super has launched a new app aimed at helping members better understand their retirement position, plan for the future and manage income. The new AMP Super app will bring retirement projections, personalised digital advice and pension management ...

Super funds bring more investment management inhouse

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2026
Australian superannuation funds are taking greater control of investment management, with internal teams accounting for a growing share of assets as funds increase in scale and investment sophistication. Rainmaker information analysis of 40 superannuation ...

Australian Unity names chief executive for home health

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2026
Australian Unity has named Anne McCormack as the chief executive and group executive for its home health division, effective January 2027. McCormack will join after three years as chief executive at mecwacare, a Victorian not-for-profit provider of ...

Vale Richard Morecroft

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2026
Veteran broadcaster Richard Morecroft has passed away, aged 70. Tributes have poured in after Morecroft died on Tuesday, 6 October, on the NSW South Coast, following a cancer diagnosis he revealed in July this year. His partner of 36 years, artist Alison ...

HESTA unveils new leaders for property, financial risk

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2026
HESTA has named a pair of general managers, who will be joining the $107 billion super fund, joining from Aware Super and QIC. Daniel Tait will join as general manager, investment and financial risk later this month, while Briar Dowsett will commence ...

ASIC issues more stop orders amid private credit crackdown

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2026
ASIC has made an interim stop order on the product disclosure statement (PDS) issued by Australian Secure Capital Fund (ASCF) offering units in three registered managed investment schemes. The interim stop order stops ASCF from offering, issuing, selling ...

ASIC sues another former Venture Egg adviser

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2026
ASIC has launched civil penalty proceedings against former financial adviser Osama Saad, alleging he participated in schemes designed to avoid conflicted remuneration laws and provided unsuitable advice that directed hundreds of clients' superannuation ...

RQI Investors launch emerging markets strategy

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2026
RQI Investors has launched a new emerging markets strategy backed by seed capital from a major Australian super fund, as the quantitative equities manager expands its offering and investment team. RQI did not name the Australian super fund. Financial ...

ASIC appoints receivers to Star Investment Group

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2026
ASIC has secured the appointment of receivers to Star Investment Group Australia and associated entities following a further Federal Court hearing into the investment scheme. Justice Anderson on October 6 appointed Adrian Robert Hunter and Jonathon ...