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Evidentia announces two new starters

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
Josh Phillips has joined asset consulting firm Evidentia Group as senior asset consultant after 12 years in Aware Super's Australian direct equities team. Evidentia is owned by Generation Development Group. At Aware Super, Phillips served as co-portfolio ...

$15m crypto scam costs former adviser 10 years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... least $14.8 million of funds invested by clients, family and friends to a cryptocurrency-based investment scam. Between March 2022 and June 2023, she allegedly transferred the money into accounts held in her name and that of her personal company before ...

ASIC puts 18 finfluencers on notice amid global campaign

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... desist letters, and issued 50 warning alerts which it expects to result in more than 650 takedown requests. The Autorité des marchés financiers in Quebec contacted several finfluencers with more than one million followers to request they remove posts ...

Government to convene a productivity roundtable

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... rates persist, and on an annual basis is actually going backwards. The latest quarterly data shows GDP per hour flat for the March quarter and remaining at minus 1% for the year," McKellar said. "The business community looks forward to participating ...

ECB drops interest rates by 0.25%

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... expects headline inflation to average 2% in 2025, 1.6% in 2026 and 2% in 2027. "The downward revisions compared with the March projections, by 0.3 percentage points for both 2025 and 2026, mainly reflect lower assumptions for energy prices and a stronger ...

Netwealth chair to retire, successor appointed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
... since his appointment as a director, the firm's funds under administration had grown from $7 billion to $104.1 billion as of March 31 and that staff numbers increased to over 660. Heine also said that Antonie's banking experience was beneficial to the ...

Life insurers report another profitable quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... life insurance industry appears to have moved past its loss-making years, reporting a $332 million profit at the end of March, new APRA figures show. About $5.7 billion was generated in insurance revenue, marking a 3% rise from the December 2024 quarter. ...

UK treasury provides guidance on local pension consolidation

MATT TOLEDO  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... Pension Schemes Bill, expected to be introduced this summer. The deadline for local government pension scheme asset pooling is March 2026. According to the Pension Investment Review, the Pension Scheme Bill could give the government reserve power to ...

Quality over quantity: CareSuper on mergers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... industry, MIESF has recently struggled with declining member accounts and cash flows, made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. In March, CareSuper and MIESF confirmed the merger would go ahead, citing their shared member-first heritage and the value members ...

Greenwashing remains an enforcement priority: ASIC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... four reports to the regulator, namely its annual financial report, the directors report, the auditor's report and, from March 2026 next year for Group 1 entities, a sustainability report. Under a phasing in system, Group 2 and Group 3 entities will ...