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Preparing earlier boosts average super balance by over $250k: Brighter Super

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2025
Australians who plan ahead are not only more comfortable in retirement but also see their super balances growing "significantly" higher than those who wait, research reveals. According to the latest Brighter Super & Investment Trends 2025 Retirement ...

Knight Frank launches private office in Australia

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025
Knight Frank has launched a private office in Australia to provide property-related advice from acquisition and sales to investment strategy, across every real estate sector. Working exclusively with high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs), family offices ...

Life insurers to up external fund manager mandates: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
A large proportion of investment teams within life insurance firms say they will increase their reliance on external fund managers over the next five years, a new survey finds. Funds management technology platform Clearwater Analytics canvassed 150 ...

ASIC strengthens codes of conduct guidance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
ASIC has refreshed its regulatory guidance on codes of conduct for the financial services sector, saying that they have an important role in how financial products and services are regulated. ASIC has updated Regulatory Guide 183 Codes of conduct for ...

Former ASIC supervisor joins crypto platform as operating chief

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025
Coinbase Australia has welcomed a new chief operating officer, who previously spent over a decade at ASIC. Adam Judd has been named chief operating officer, effective today, joining from CommSec where he was most recently the executive manager, product ...

FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
In the book The Lucky Country, the late author Donald Horne provides a piercing assessment of Australia in 1964, stating that its prosperity is derived from good fortune rather than industriousness or ambition. He ruminated about the future challenges ...

Principal rejoins Mercer team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
Mercer has recruited a former employee as a principal and senior actuarial consultant. In her new role, Christine Lu will focus on life insurance consulting as well as on defined benefit and defined contribution superannuation. Lu has 14 years of experience ...

ASIC takes SMSF auditor to court for continuing work despite ban

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... Convery for acting as an SMSF auditor even after being permanently disqualified under the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act (SIS Act) by the regulator last year. ASIC said that Convery continued to act as an SMSF auditor for four tax agents and ...

APRA's fresh guardrails to impact property investors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will limit high debt-to-income (DTI) home lending in a move to pre-emptively contain a build-up of housing-related vulnerabilities in the financial system, APRA chair John Lonsdale said. From 1 February ...

ASIC to monitor union redundancy funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
Following a consultation process that was launched in June, ASIC has outlined its approach to the regulation of employee redundancy funds under the Corporations Act 2001 (Corporations Act), once the current relief expires on 1 April 2026. Operators ...