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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 ...

ASIC tells super: 'You have everything you need to not fail'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2025
ASIC commissioner Simone Constant has told Financial Standard the regulator has super funds in its sights for more than just claims handling delays. "The main focus is on member services more generally, this is a multi-year phased project" Constant ...

Responsible investing buoyed by instos: RIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2025
... particularly "in the midst of a highly dynamic period that continues to change the environment we operate in." Financial Standard is the media partner of the 2025 Responsible Investment Association Australasia Conference.

Why emotions, cash derail good investments

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025
... alternatives shone during that period and that the asset class had the "best performing assets" amid inflation. Financial Standard was a guest at J.P. Morgan Asset Management's 2025 Media Summit.

DeepSeek, Alibaba: Silver linings for emerging markets strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... had a weighting of 6.5%. "What was once a growth darling, was reduced to a real value stock," Whiting told Financial Standard. Alibaba suffered on the back of co-founder Jack Ma's sudden hiatus from the public eye some five years ago. At the time ...