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Future Fund defends itself over staff exits

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2026
... competitive environment. "Staff engagement stands at 82% and is the eighth highest among the 107 Agencies in the Australian Public Service. Staff turnover is normal at 11.8% to 12.8% in each of the last three years. Staff turnover at senior levels in ...

IFPA chief executive to exit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2026
... services in Australia is at a genuinely pivotal inflection point. Regulatory evolution, technological change, and growing public scrutiny of the profession are all creating pressure, but also real opportunity. The professionals who lean into that complexity ...

FEATURE: Private equity | Time to deploy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2026
... happen." The other reason ART feels optimistic about the PE space is because of the broader opportunity set it can provide; public markets offer thousands of companies, but private markets offer tens of thousands. "Small-to-medium enterprises are a huge ...

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

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2026
... resilient investment strategy that can support their savings through different market conditions," Nest Invest director of public and private markets Rachel Farrell said. "As we broaden our exposure to global credit markets, it is essential that we do ...

GESB loses another key executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2026
... Western Australia's State Superannuation Act 2000, which enabled GESB to accept superannuation guarantee payments from non-public sector employers. "While he was not looking for alternative employment and was focused on helping us deliver our runway ...

Regal Partners appoints chair-elect

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2026
... to guide the company going forward. Peter is highly regarded director with deep experience across financial services and public companies, as well as extensive investment community and business relationships within Australia and Asia," Cole said. "I ...

Former super fund chief to steer new fund manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2026
... 250,000 members. Palmer also led the One Fund reform, which saw Western Australian legislation amended to allow former public sector workers to continue contributing to GESB. He has been replaced by GESB chief investment officer Paul Taylor on an interim ...

ASIC concerns over Interprac sale 'unfounded': Sequoia

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2026
Sequoia Financial Group says ASIC's concerns around what the sale of Interprac Financial Planning might mean for its creditors are "unfounded", while also saying it is working with ASX to determine whether shareholders are required to approve the ...

Former Venture Egg adviser permanently banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2026
A financial adviser who allowed others to provide Statements of Advice (SOAs) in his name and was actively involved in the dodgy referral processes that led to significant client losses due to the Shield and First Guardian collapses is now banned. Aristotle ...

Sale of Interprac raises eyebrows at ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2026
ASIC wants the Federal Court to appoint a receiver to investigate the fire sale of Interprac Financial Planning to Conquest Investment Partners, saying it has concerns over what it may mean for the advice group's creditors. The regulator has applied ...