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FEATURE: Hyped up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
Financial services firms stand at a pivotal juncture. Those in one camp, with their heads buried in the sand, can no longer ignore the fact that artificial intelligence (AI), particularly its sidekick generative AI (GenAI), is everywhere. The other ...

Australian Alternative Investment Awards finalists named

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
The finalists for the Alternative Future Foundation's annual Australian Alternative Investment Awards have been revealed. To be presented on September 24 at the Hedge Funds Rock fundraising dinner as part of Sydney Alternative Investment Week, the ...

ASIC piles more charges on Merhi

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2025
ASIC has heaped more allegations against former financial adviser Ferras Merhi, claiming he engaged in "unconscionable conduct" related to the First Guardian Master Fund and Shield Master Fund that has put more than $520 million on the line. ASIC said ...

Clime investments chief resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2025
Clime Investment Management's chief investment officer has resigned from the post three years after being appointed. Will Riggall tendered his resignation in June. He also exits as a director of the ASX-listed firm, a role he was appointed to last ...

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 ...

Shield-linked advice firm director, compliance manager banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025
The AFSL of MWL Financial Services has been cancelled, while both its director and its compliance manager have copped bans after they allegedly helped funnel more than $150 million in investments into the Shield Master Fund. MWL recommended Shield to ...

ASIC flags firm grip on private and public markets, super funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
ASIC is targeting the perfect storm of declining public market listings, booming private markets and the growing influence of superannuation funds as key enforcement priorities over the next four years, insisting that it is not sitting on the sidelines. ...

Vale Raymond Mason

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2025
Raymond "Chipp" Mason, the founder of Legg Mason, has passed away at the age of 88. He founded Mason & Co. in 1962 at the age of 25 after working in his family's brokerage business. In 1970, Legg & Co. acquired Mason & Co. to become Legg Mason. ...

Equity Trustees sued over Shield Master Fund failures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2025
Equity Trustees will face court over its alleged due diligence failures concerning the Shield Master Fund. ASIC flagged that as a superannuation trustee, Equity Trustees oversaw the investment of around $160 million of retirement savings into Shield ...

Anti-hawking exemption for advisers a 'silly carve out': SCA

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
Super Consumers Australia (SCA) is calling on the government to alter anti-hawking legislation to ensure consistency between selling financial services and financial products. In response to an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) consultation ...