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Bombora Advice appoints new chair, managing director

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
Bombora Advice is welcoming a new chair and a managing director following the departure of founder Kevin Martin. Wayne Handley will take on the role of executive chair and Niall McConville will become managing director, effective July 1. Martin served ...

Super funds, banks say cybersecurity is now their biggest concern

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
APRA's 2025 Stakeholder Survey shows that cyber security risk has emerged as the topmost concern in financial services. The survey, which gathered responses from 262 financial institutions, revealed that the threat of cyber security was listed as a ...

Legalsuper celebrates double digit returns

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
Legalsuper expects to close out the financial year with a return of more than 11% for its MySuper product. The super fund predicts FY25 will see a return of at least 11% for its MySuper Balanced option, while the High Growth option should return about ...

Brite Advisors auditor admits failures, surrenders registration

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
ASIC has accepted a court enforceable undertaking from DM Advisory Services principal David Makowa, the auditor of Brite Advisors. Makowa, a veteran of more than 20 years in practice - including stints at Ernst & Young and KPMG - has surrendered his ...

Super funds given reprieve from Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
Section 899 of US President Donald Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' will be abandoned after institutional investors expressed concerns over the retaliatory tax proposal. The announcement was made by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent overnight ...

Brookfield to divest retirement living platform for $3.85bn

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
Brookfield Asset Management is selling its local retirement home operator Aveo to The Living Company for $3.85 billion. Brookfield acquired Aveo in 2019 for about $1.3 billion. Aveo owns more than 10,000 units in metropolitan suburbs across the eastern ...

APRA dissects retirement products for the first time

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
More than 200 retirement products managing $490 billion in members' retirement savings have come under the watchful eye of prudential regulator APRA for the first time. APRA's latest statistics for the March 2025 period breaks down the state ...

Australian Ethical drops fees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
Australian Ethical has made changes to its insurance offering to provide Standard Default Cover members with a higher level of coverage at all ages, while also reducing fees for most age groups, while other age groups will see costs unchanged. From ...

Talent exodus hits Zenith, Lonsec and Evidentia

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
Zenith Investment Partners will see the departure of its lead consultant, highlighting the intensifying battle for experienced asset consultants. Zenith lead consultant Steve Tang is understood to have joined colleague Ben Davis at Ascalon Capital. ...

First Super deputy CEO jumps ship

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
First Super has bid farewell to its deputy chief executive and is now on the hunt for a successor. After four years with the industry fund that serves people in the furniture and joinery, pulp and paper and timber industries, Michelle Boucher has taken ...