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Fortitude Investment Partners expands team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
Private equity manager Fortitude Investment Partners has made a string of appointments this month, including an investor services manager who had worked at Allan Gray (South Africa) for more than a decade. Akyere Sobukwe-Whyte has been appointed as ...

ASIC culls red tape, sets sights on more

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
ASIC has culled more than 9240 pages of regulation since the start of the year and is calling for more ideas for regulatory simplification. A new report, aptly named Regulatory Simplification, seeks input on a range of initiatives aimed at making regulation ...

Super funds test cybersecurity resilience

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
Still reeling from the coordinated cyberattack in April, superannuation funds will test their cybersecurity resilience and see what lessons they have learned under a drill provided by the Gateway Network Governance Body (GNGB). Taking place on Thursday ...

Legalsuper updates investment, insurance fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
Legalsuper has introduced several changes to its investment options' objectives and fees, as well as some insurance costs. Effective September 1, the Conservative option will change its investment objective from outperforming an average annual return ...

Praemium partners to offer more global options

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
Praemium has integrated Clearstream's Vestima into its Spectrum platform, offering global fund access and operational efficiency for financial advisers. Vestima supports over 245,000 funds across 55 markets with nearly €4 trillion ($7tn) in assets ...

AMP lifts advisers' efficiency game with Grow

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2025
AMP North has launched a new investment menu, offering a plethora of features designed to deliver efficiencies, including cutting account fees, and the ability to mix and match investments from other menus. The new North Grow allows advisers to simplify ...

AMP, Insignia, Bendigo products fail super performance test

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
AMP, Insignia Financial and Bendigo SmartStart are the only superannuation fund providers whose platform trustee-directed products (TDP) failed APRA's latest performance test. Only seven out of the 563 products that APRA tested failed in its latest ...

K2 Asset Management seeks M&A partners

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
As funds under management (FUM) hits nearly $5 billion, K2 Asset Management (KAM) flagged it is "now actively exploring mergers and acquisitions". KAM's responsible entity (RE), trustee and administration business drove FUM growth in the 12 months ...

NGS Super readies for admin transformation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
After close to a year-long delay, NGS Super will begin transferring its administration services to GROW Inc. in October. In May 2024, NGS Super announced it was ending a long-standing administration services arrangement with Mercer, instead handing ...

ATO bares teeth at dentists pushing early super access

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2025
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has warned of an increase in "dodgy advice" about accessing superannuation savings for non-critical medical procedures, like cosmetic dental work. The number of people accessing their super under the guise of medical ...