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First Super reduces admin fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2025
... dropping from $1750 per year to $1250. "Most Retirement Income account members will be better off due to these changes, though a small number with balances under $39,000 may experience a slight overall increase in fees," First Super noted. Finally, the ...

Overcoming the three-body problem in advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
Financial advisers have heard how an active, factor-based approach can help eliminate the three-body problem in financial advice. In 1867, Sir Isaac Newton identified the three-body problem. Relating to the laws of gravity, he found that it's impossible ...

Special feature: Shaping private markets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... fragmented data while building value around what can be known. Artificial intelligence is starting to shift the picture, though it won't solve the fundamental independence problem. But it's becoming a powerful tool for flagging trends, building ...

Lipman Burgon taps former Koda Capital head of research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025
The former head of research at Koda Capital resurfaces at a rival financial advisory firm. Jason Coggins, who left Koda Capital two years ago joins the investment committee of Lipman Burgon & Partners. Effective this month, he replaces investment committee ...

Federated Hermes 'not far away' from launching Australian wholesale products

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
Federated Hermes has primarily engaged with the institutional market, notably superannuation funds, in Australia, but this is set to change as the firm looks to tap into the local wholesale market. Federated Hermes international head of sales Clive ...

Commonwealth Super awards sustainable credit mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2025
Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC) is the seed investor in two new sustainable credit funds from UK-based manager Osmosis Investment Management. The fund manager has launched the Osmosis Global Credit UCITS Fund and the Osmosis Global High ...

Section 899 ditched but companies face tax uncertainties

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2025
While Australian investors breathed a resounding sigh of relief when US President Donald Trump binned section 899 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), local multinationals, however, were lumped with grave uncertainties surrounding the global Pillar ...

Ascalon continues to build its team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
Ascalon Capital has added two executives to its growing team as it expands its partnership-driven consulting and adviser-aligned investment solutions. Berit Deagan joins as head of business development and John Burton as head of business solutions. ...

Instos turn to risk as volatility lessens: State Street

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... said institutional investors have also increased allocation to stocks, particularly in the US technology sector. "Even though we have seen broad-based buying of risky assets, the largest buildup in risky positions was in asset allocation, equity and ...

SIAA chief executive steps down

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2025
Stockbrokers and Investment Advisers Association (SIAA) chief executive Judith Fox will retire at the end of 2025 once a replacement has been appointed. SIAA chair Hamish Dee said Fox advised that she has decided to retire after six years in the role. ...