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State Street's plan for power, product, partnerships

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... or, more often, indirectly through superannuation funds - touches the wealth of many Australians. Speaking to Financial Standard, SSGA head of Asia Pacific Kevin Anderson mapped out the firm's game plan for Australia - its ETF positioning in a fiercely ...

Lower interest rates conducive for bigger risk appetite, small caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... Investors also believe that, operationally, small caps are more volatile than large caps," Sheridan recently told Financial Standard. This is typically because in a large cap portfolio there are five or six businesses that will average out the volatility ...

MAX Awards honour best of the best

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
More than 350 industry professionals turned out for Financial Standard 's night of nights, honouring the best and brightest in advertising, marketing and sales. The annual Financial Standard Marketing, Advertising and Sales Excellence (MAX) Awards ...

Aged care reforms pushed to November

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
... register for a recent webinar on the topic. Challenger's head of technical services Andrew Lowe recently told Financial Standard that in May more than 40% of all calls to its technical team were related to these reforms. The changes mean those entering ...

HESTA turns the lights back on after service shutdown

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
... experienced a similar length of disruption when it transitioned to GROW last year. As previously reported by Financial Standard, HESTA's members didn't receive a pause or reduction in administration fees during the limited services period. Additionally ...

Touchstone closes flagship fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... launched in 2015 by principals Jack Chemello, Suellen Morgan and Mary Feros. Bennelong said in a statement to Financial Standard : "After consultation with the fund's investment manager Touchstone Asset Management Pty Ltd (Touchstone) and our own ...

Life insurers report another profitable quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... IDII products helped curb a disastrous outcome that ultimately led to turnaround in 2022. In a statement to Financial Standard, APRA recently said that it continues to monitor developments around IDII but does not have any specific commentary on this. ...

Quality over quantity: CareSuper on mergers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... job, and we want to respect that and do an equally great job for them when they come across to us," he told Financial Standard. "They are one of the old traditional funds, but the world is unfortunately moving very rapidly in this space, and the pressures ...

ASIC sues former director of crypto platform owing nearly $60m

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... approximately $1.8 million worth of bitcoins from an investor into his personal wallet in 2019. In February 2024, Financial Standard reported other related directors, Samuel Xue Lee and Zijang (Ryan) Xu, had since left the country, leaving Guo the only ...

Large penalties against super funds are appropriate: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
ASIC commissioner Simone Constant told Financial Standard that many super fund trustees have taken accountability for not meeting their requirements to members, know they need to improve and accept the penalties that are brought against them. However ...