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Equity Trustees sued over Shield Master Fund failures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2025
Equity Trustees will face court over its alleged due diligence failures concerning the Shield Master Fund. ASIC flagged that as a superannuation trustee, Equity Trustees oversaw the investment of around $160 million of retirement savings into Shield ...

Super funds should prompt members on death benefits: SCA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2025
Super Consumers Australia (SCA) has called on superannuation funds to do more to prompt members to complete a binding nomination and clearly communicate why it is important they have one. This comes as SCA released new research showing that 36% of Australians ...

Liquidity issues hurting Healthbridge Capital investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
Healthbridge Capital investors have been locked out of their money since March amid a liquidity crunch as corporate regulator ASIC stays mum about its knowledge or investigation into the potential collapse of another managed investment scheme. A significant ...

Evidentia names chief risk, operating officer

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2025
Evidentia Group has appointed a new chief risk and operating officer who previously worked at MLC Asset Management and Perpetual. Jason Komadina will officially take on the role on August 22. He joined Evidentia in March as an integration lead. Prior ...

ART chair to retire

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2025
Australian Retirement Trust (ART) chair Andrew Fraser intends to retire at the ART Annual Member Meeting on November 20, at which point a successor will be named. Fraser was first appointed to Sunsuper as an independent director in September 2015 and ...

Fiducian FUA reaches $5bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
Fiducian Group's funds under advice (FUA) hit $5 billion in the 2025 financial year as net inflows from salaried and franchisee financial advisers reached $343 million. FUA grew 4% year on year from $4.8 billion across its Core, Auxilium and Badges ...

Funds SA finalises investment team overhaul

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
Funds SA has finalised the restructuring of its investment team, shuffling several roles around and creating some new ones. The organisation, which manages the investments of 13 different super fund, endowment and insurer clients including Super SA ...

Account number issue causes angst, undue admin work: FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
Flaws in Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) Tranche 1 has inundated financial advisers with angst and more administrative work thanks to confusion surrounding account number inclusion in consent forms, according to the Financial Advice Association ...

RBA cuts rates, experts debate next moves

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
As widely anticipated, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) delivered a 0.25% interest rate cut at the August meeting, bringing the official cash rate down to 3.6%. The RBA board noted that the easing in inflation alongside a softening in the labour ...

Superannuation fraudster sentenced to prison

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2025
Former property developer Michael Steele was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment after using money invested for a commercial and residential property development on the Gold Coast for his own and the benefit of family members. Steele was sentenced ...