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MBS Insurance partners with Orbital Life

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2025
Risk insurance specialist MBS Insurance (MBS) has acquired a minority interest in boutique risk advisory firm Orbital Life. The partnership will enhance MBS's capacity to provide professional advice and make quality insurance advice more accessible ...

Evidentia acquires practice management firm

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2025
... Evidentia Group client segments," he said. Zaglas said: "Encore exists to help owners get a better return on their business and life. We love working with business owners to build great advice businesses. Joining Evidentia Group enables us to help more ...

TAL to provide mental healthcare program via partnership

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2025
... return to health, which includes one-to-one support, recovery groups, and skill development workshops to improve quality of life, while bridging the gaps between primary care and recovery-focused peer support services. It is built to be inclusive for ...

Bell Financial Group names inaugural investments chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
Bell Financial Group (BFG) has appointed its first chief investment officer, picking someone who recently finished up at Clime Investment Management. Will Riggall is the new investments chief, having ended his tenure at Clime in June after more than ...

Hume's super sharing bill lashed in parliament

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
Senator Jane Hume's Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Tackling the Gender Super Gap) Bill 2025 sparked a wave of backlash during its second reading in the Senate this week. The bill, which seeks to allow spouses to split superannuation annually ...

NRFC invests in brain-computer interface devices

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
... regulatory approval, and establish a strong commercial hub in Australia. Most importantly, it brings us closer to delivering life-changing brain-computer interface devices to millions of people worldwide who are waiting for a solution," he said. Synchron ...

Member engagement lies in rewards, gamification: Whitepaper

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
Superannuation funds should be more innovative in boosting member engagement by offering tangible rewards and benefits that can lead to meaningful, repeatable interactions, according to a new whitepaper. The paper published by ASX-listed customer engagement ...

ASIC considers 'cooling off period' for super switching

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
... practical as that," he said. "Anything that just sort of slows people down, makes them think, sleep on it. We all know from life experience that if you slow things down, you give yourself a better chance of making a wiser decision." Longo said the industry ...

Colonial First State, AIA agree $140m class action settlement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... was launched by Shine Lawyers in January 2020 against Colonial First State Investments Limited (CFSIL) and Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society (CMLA), known as CommInsure and acquired by AIA Australia in 2017. The action alleged that CFSIL, as the ...

Damian Graham jumps to Challenger

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... January 2026. The group chief investment officer position is a new role that will integrate investment teams from Challenger Life and funds management into one team. Challenger said the move seeks to bring closer alignment of investment capabilities ...