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Life insurers to up external fund manager mandates: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
... platform Clearwater Analytics canvassed 150 executives from the asset management arms of life insurers, as well as health and general insurance companies, across Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Collectively, these insurance firms invest US$2.6 trillion ...

FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
In the book The Lucky Country, the late author Donald Horne provides a piercing assessment of Australia in 1964, stating that its prosperity is derived from good fortune rather than industriousness or ambition. He ruminated about the future challenges ...

Top Koda Capital exec exits

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... financial planning sector. Before joining Koda, Hinze spent nine years at AMP in several senior leadership roles, including general manager of AMP Advice, head of adviser advocacy during a major transformation program, and managing director of Charter ...

CareSuper exec joins Prime Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... leading the risk and compliance function and reporting to Prime Super chief executive Raelene Seales. His appointment as general manager, risk and compliance, follows a nine-month stint at Mercer Super and two years as head of risk at CareSuper However ...

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% ...

Government cracks down on financial abuse via coerced directorships

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
The government has opened consultation to combat financial abuse in families perpetrated through coerced directorships. The consultation paper by the Treasury noted that financial abusers can exploit loopholes in tax and corporate systems, weaponising ...

Reforms on super advertising, stapling enter parliament

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2025
... Representatives today. The Treasury Laws Amendment (Supporting Choice in Superannuation and Other Measures) Bill 2025 introduces a general ban on advertising super products during employee onboarding, with certain exceptions. Broadly, the changes would ...

MLC Super adds advice, education head

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2025
... more than 20 years' experience across the financial services industry. Before Ignition Advice, he was leading the AMP general advice division for over six years. Earlier in his career, he held advice-related roles at Zurich Financial Services Australia ...

Super funds lagging RIC obligations: Pulse Check

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2025
ASIC and APRA have released the findings of the 2025 Pulse Check on retirement income covenant (RIC) implementation, painting a fairly dire picture of how super funds are understanding and meeting member needs. While the regulators said some improvements ...

Clime shutters two funds, offloads retail book

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2025
... investigation, and will offload its retail client book for $1.65 million to an undisclosed financial advice practice. At the annual general meeting last week, Clime chair John Abernethy announced the closure of the Clime Australian Income Fund and Clime ...