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FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... meets farmers who no longer own assets, sensing that they weren't willing to adapt with the times. "Because at some point in time, it becomes this lifestyle. Now, if that's what you want, great, but if you want succession planning, growth and ...

Former Pendal insto lead quits Citi

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
Citi's institutional sales head is leaving for the nation's largest bank to manage key relationships with superannuation funds, sponsors, asset managers and insurers. Nicki Ashton is set to join Commonwealth Bank as a global relationship manager ...

Rainmaker's John Dyall to retire

STAFF WRITERS  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... research-combining analytical precision with strong communication skills and an ability to tell compelling stories with data. Colleagues point to his mix of quantitative meticulousness and practical judgement, qualities that have shaped Rainmaker's ...

Australia's gender pay gap narrows: WGEA reports

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency has released the latest Australia's Gender Equality Scorecard. Spanning the past 12 months, the employer census revealed that the national gender pay gap has dropped by 0.7 percentage points (pp) to 21.1%, from 21.8% ...

Super funds lagging RIC obligations: Pulse Check

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2025
... the provision of tailored retirement solutions. However, most funds only used member age and account balance as a starting point. Other factors that were considered by some licensees when defining cohorts included employment status, life stage, Age Pension ...

MA Financial secures Queensland shopping district for nearly $700m

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2025
... secure Hyperdome Town Centre, which is one of Queensland's largest and most strategic retail landholdings and the focal point of its local community," Lock said. "This exceptionally rare acquisition builds on our recently announced acquisition of Top ...

APRA-regulated funds should not pay CSLR special levy: SMC

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025
The Super Members Council (SMC) is urging the government to carve out APRA-regulated super trustees' responsibility in the FY27 Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR) special levy, claiming that it will be a "clear breach" of the scheme's principle ...

Ditch cash, curb emotionally led investing: Expert

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2025
The opportunity costs of leaving cash in a savings account are too high as financial advisers can do more to help manage clients' emotional responses when it comes to taking higher risks with their money, a behavioural finance expert said. At the ...

APRA stress tests for potential ASX failure

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... that a securities exchange provider going offline for five days is a "severe scenario" but said "that emphasises the whole point of having a stress test; to test a hypothetical and severe scenario". APRA said that should an operational failure like that ...

Prevention of Shield, First Guardian-like events the focus from here on: Mulino

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... things are now before the court, but it appears that there may have been failures at multiple points. I do want to make the point that it's not just advice, even though when the CSLR identifies the losses as part of the advice sub-sector," he said. "[However,] ...