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Government's rush to implement Payday Super is 'reckless': Coalition

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2025
... protection and prevent multiple accounts with duplicate fees. SMC chief executive Misha Schubert said: "We also need to see action to protect Australians from losing money to duplicate accounts with multiple fees by proceeding with proposed safeguards ...

James Mawhinney launches another appeal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... number of the allegations made against him, including that he loaned investor funds to family members. Prior to ASIC taking action, all Mayfair 101 clients were paid principal and interest on time and in full, he said, with no complaints made by any ...

Apostle partners with Qtron Investments

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2025
Apostle Funds Management (Apostle) has partnered with US-based quantitative investment manager Qtron Investments (Qtron) to provide Australian wholesale and institutional investors access to its global equity strategies. The partnership marks the first ...

Federated Hermes to acquire majority interest in FCP

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
Federated Hermes has agreed to acquire an 80% interest in Federal Capital Partners Fund Manager (FCP). The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2026, and will be the second private markets acquisition made by Federated Hermes since ...

FEATURE: Fund admin | Tight Ship

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... processes and the right arrangements so that the responsibilities to these members are met, then we don't need to bring an action," she warns. What ASIC is effectively saying is there is a "disconnect between what's happening in the boardroom and in ...

ASIC bans adviser attached to UGC, MWL

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... individuals that we are in the process of looking at," Court said at the time. "Twenty of those have already had court action, 50 of them are current investigations, and 70 more we have got on the list."

Feature: Retirement | Rewarding risk

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... mitigate those risks, which is an essential part of investment planning in retirement." One "underappreciated" course of action, says Hillier, and one which takes away a lot of sequencing risk is to increase the Age Pension availability, because it only ...

Feature: Group insurance | Cold comfort

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... we are having to rethink how we better serve customers in the decades ahead." CALI is now working to develop an industry action plan for mental health, supporting long-term affordability and sustainability while better supporting claimants. This involves ...

Public feedback welcomed for Life Code improvements

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2025
... topic as the first of many key considerations in the consultation. Last week, CALI stated that it is developing an industry action plan for mental health claims over the next 12 months, a move to ensure all claimants are assessed appropriately. Some ...

APRA flags growing trustee complacency on retirement strategies

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
APRA is concerned about a growing lack of urgency among superannuation trustees to develop and implement retirement income strategies. APRA deputy chair Margaret Cole, speaking at the Innovation in Retirement conference in Sydney, said the APRA-ASIC ...