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Future Fund targets $15m in savings, reviews staffing

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2026
... invested has grown to $335 billion from $218 billion. "We will continue to assess the resources needed to generate strong-risk adjusted returns in a complex investment environment, making changes where it is prudent to do so," he said.

Treasury mulls increased powers for TPB

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2026
... units for bodies corporate and significant global entities (up from 1250). "Unregistered practitioners pose a heightened risk to the integrity of the tax system as they have not been approved by the TPB to provide tax or BAS agent services and may not ...

Spheria launches active ETF for small caps fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2026
... fracturing the US security umbrella and embedding geopolitics as a structural driver of asset prices rather than an episodic risk to be faded," he said. "As a response investor flows have picked up in select hedges: energy producers, uranium, defence ...

UK's Nest to invest $860m in private companies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2026
... million members and over half a million employers and aim to deliver the stable income, downside protection, and attractive risk-adjusted returns that private credit can offer. "We look forward to building a partnership that supports Nest's mission for ...

CFS awards $370m mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2026
... infrastructure portfolio. It reflects our continued focus on high-quality, actively managed investments that deliver strong risk-adjusted returns for our members," said CFS chief investment officer Jonathan Armitage. Morrison is the manager of Utilities ...

ASIC acts against another former FSGA adviser

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2026
... Statements of Advice that included misleading statements and recommended placing entire superannuation balances into high-risk products. It said this was particularly the case where the fact find had been done by an unlicensed third party, the SOA was ...

GESB loses another key executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2026
... business unit, including legal, secretariat and governance functions, information security, records and data management, risk and compliance, IT services, and people and culture. He had been brought on to support the fund's new strategy following changes ...

Strengthen Life Code for mental health crisis, claims handling: Review

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2026
... self-identify or disclose sensitive circumstances when they do not wish to. Rather, insurers proactively considering potential risk factors for vulnerability that may indicate the need for support. "This can be based on information they already hold ...

New AMP boss outlines vision amid drooping share price

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2026
... includes responding to how AI may disrupt the wealth sector and the tight regulatory frameworks that help to mitigate that risk for AMP," he said. Vernon took over the top job from Alexis George, who left the wealth firm on March 30.

Super Consumers Australia raises concerns over Treasury reforms

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2026
... response to the Shield and First Guardian collapses, which saw more than 11,000 Australians invest over $1 billion into high-risk and inappropriate products. Super Consumers Australia chief executive Xavier O'Halloran said reforms need to focus on preventing ...