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FEATURE: Problem detected

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2025
While financial services organisations may be comfortable with taking risks, certainly when it comes to investing, there are other types of risks they're not so familiar with. It may be 2025, but we continue to consistently see examples of organisations ...

Zenith reaffirms Metrics ratings amid doubts

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2025
... the NPS did a lot of due diligence in terms of understanding the framework and whether that was consistent with best practice." He added that there's been several enhancements in the time Zenith has been covering the strategy, including adding independent ...

Zenith names portfolio solutions lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2025
Zenith Investment Partners has appointed a lead for portfolio solutions, replacing the incumbent who spent six years in the role. Andrew Yap has been promoted to head of portfolio solutions after serving in the deputy seat of this position for three ...

Insurers' approaches reinforcing mental health stigma: Life CCC

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2025
... individual circumstances. Releasing its report on life insurers' compliance with obligations in the Life Insurance Code of Practice (Life Code), the Life CCC said that although some insurers are meeting requirements by considering individual circumstances ...

ANZ fined $240m for bond trading, retail misconduct

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2025
... issue in 2022, and took over a year to resolve it. In July 2024, ANZ was sanctioned for breaches of the Banking Code of Practice by the Banking Code Compliance Committee. Some 18,900 customer accounts have been remediated $3.8 million for fees ANZ did ...

ASIC takes aim at super, private markets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2025
ASIC commissioner Simone Constant says that three years into the Retirement Income Covenant, things are "not where we'd hoped to be". Speaking at a FINSIA event on Friday, Constant said there is still room to improve the ways super trustees serve their ...

Macquarie AM wins sovereign wealth fund mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) will set up shop in Saudi Arabia after being tapped by sovereign wealth fund PIF for joint venture investments in infrastructure and energy transition sectors. The US$925 billion sovereign wealth fund signed a Memorandum ...

Binance, Franklin Templeton in digital asset partnership

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2025
... products that meet the requirements of global capital markets. He adds that the goal is to move tokenisation from concept to practice for clients and help portfolio construction at scale. "Our strategic collaboration with Franklin Templeton to develop ...

Family offices stand firm on sustainable investing

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2025
Family offices say they remain committed to sustainable investments despite ongoing political and financial uncertainty, according to a survey by the Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFI). Nearly all the 144 Asia Pacific family offices surveyed feature ...

Lazard Asset Management appoints new chief executive

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
... the company, including chief financial officer and co-head of Lazard's Capital Markets and Capital Structure Advisory practice. Russo, who will transition to an advisory role, said that Hogbin's "client-focused approach and investment expertise" will ...