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AI adoption by investors 'grows rapidly': Research

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2025
Investors turning to artificial intelligence (AI) for investment advice is rising, according to new survey from Chartered Accountants ANZ (CA ANZ). CA ANZ survey of 1000 Australian retail investors with more than $10,000 invested in the stock market ...

NZ Super delivers 11.84%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2025
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has delivered a pre-tax return of 11.84% after costs for the year ended 30 June 2025. Total fund size was up $8.4 billion from a year earlier, ending the 2025 financial year at $85.1 billion. Guardians of New Zealand ...

InterPrac wants super funds' reserves to remediate Shield, First Guardian victims

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... Financial Planning wants to rid itself of remediation obligations regarding the collapse of the Shield Master Fund and First Guardian Master Fund, saying that victims should be "fully compensated" via superannuation funds' reserves. InterPrac is currently ...

FAAA calls for other sectors to help pay $67m CSLR bill

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
... collapses that we have seen so far, including Dixon Advisory, United Global Capital, Brite Advisory, Shield and First Guardian, each point to a key product failure element. To attribute all these losses to financial advice and to provide no mechanism ...

ASIC piles more charges on Merhi

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2025
... allegations against former financial adviser Ferras Merhi, claiming he engaged in "unconscionable conduct" related to the First Guardian Master Fund and Shield Master Fund that has put more than $520 million on the line. ASIC said it sought leave from ...

AMP, Insignia, Bendigo products fail super performance test

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
... third consecutive year that Insignia and AMP have featured on the list since the test was introduced. AMP's North Guardian Balanced Fund, North Guardian Growth Fund and North Guardian Moderately Defensive Fund have failed in the past and are closed ...

Government scraps inquiry into advice firm failures, Dixon Advisory

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
... end the Inquiry seems extraordinary, particularly in the light of recent news about the collapse of Shield and First Guardian, potentially involving over $1 billion in consumer losses from their super," FAAA chief executive Sarah Abood said. "This scandal ...

ASIC flags firm grip on private and public markets, super funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
... "industrial scale" and culminated in several managed investment scheme failures such as the Shield Master Fund and First Guardian Master Fund. ASIC chair Joe Longo commented: "We direct our efforts and finite resources to areas where we see the greatest ...

Equity Trustees sued over Shield Master Fund failures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2025
... research house. ASIC is also investigating Equity Trustees in relation to the onboarding and ongoing monitoring of the First Guardian Master Fund.

Anti-hawking exemption for advisers a 'silly carve out': SCA

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
... Commission (ACCC) consultation on unsolicited selling and lead generation, SCA drew attention to the collapsed First Guardian and Shield Master Fund. Where superannuation products are involved, SCA said lead generators generally exploit vulnerable people ...