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InterPrac hit with $22m in AFCA complaints

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
Sequoia Financial Group's InterPrac Financial Planning is facing $22 million worth of complaints lodged with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) for its advisers' role in the collapse of the Shield Master Fund and First Guardian ...

Treasury launches retirement phase consultations

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
Treasury has launched two consultations relating to the retirement phase, one of which seeks the right metrics and indicators to create transparency and improve retirement outcomes. The proposed Retirement Reporting Framework will require trustees to ...

CALI launches review of Life Code

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
The Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI) has appointed Peter Kell to lead an independent review of the Life Insurance Code of Practice (Life Code). The review will begin on 1 October 2025. The Life Code sets enforceable standards life insurers ...

HUB24 recruits Vanguard sales manager

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
HUB24 has appointed a leader to its platform growth team, who will be responsible for building industry relationships once he takes the reins on September 2. Matt Willis has been appointed to the newly created role of executive general manager, platform ...

IFM Investors buys Air Rail

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
IFM Investors acquired 75% of Air Rail, the largest airport ground support equipment (GSE) provider in Spain and Portugal. Headquartered in Madrid, Air Rail owns and leases GSE, like boarding stairs and baggage carts, and provides maintenance services ...

Pinnacle backs private markets managed accounts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
Pinnacle Investment Management has made a strategic investment in FinCap Group to support the launch of a private assets managed accounts platform for Australian financial advisers and their wholesale clients. The platform is designed to offer wholesale ...

Former CBA chief economist joins UniSuper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
UniSuper has announced that former Commonwealth Bank (CBA) chief economist Stephen Halmarick will join its investment committee as an independent (non-director) member. The $149 billion super fund said Halmarick will commence his tenure on 1 August ...

Acenda Group names finance, risk leads

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025
Acenda Group, which will result in the merger of Acenda and Resolution Life Australasia before the end of the year, has appointed its chief financial officer and chief risk officer. Karen Malzard has been named group chief risk officer. For the last ...

Cbus deputy chief executive resigns

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
Cbus deputy chief executive and chief member officer Marianne Walker has stepped down from the super fund. A Cbus spokesperson told Financial Standard Walker will depart in September. "Marianne Walker has decided to leave the fund in early September ...

ASIC loses appeal against Finder Wallet

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
The Federal Court has dismissed ASIC's appeal in the Finder Wallet case relating to the defunct crypto-asset related product Finder Earn. Wallet Ventures (previously known as Finder Wallet) is an AUSTRAC-registered digital currency exchange. The ...