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ASIC permanently bans convicted investment manager

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
... 2019, Trevillian forged four portfolio performance verification reports with false investment returns related to two products offered by AlphaThorn (now Trading Life Services), when he was the investment manager. These reports also falsely claimed that ...

Life insurers double earnings in FY25

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2025
... which were relatively stable over the quarter and much of the past 12 months. APRA began shaking up some life insurance products five years ago, saying that IDII had accumulated losses of more than $3 billion at the time. APRA's intervention into ...

AMP, Insignia, Bendigo products fail super performance test

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
... 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 assessment ...

K2 Asset Management seeks M&A partners

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
... behalf of wealth management and family office clients. The RE and administration unit services 17 managers across over 30 products. Fees received from ongoing RE and trustee services, including licensing, rose by 30% during the period. As a pathway to ...

Government scraps inquiry into advice firm failures, Dixon Advisory

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
... Superannuation Services as a case study, including looking at the business model and influence of the sale of related party products. The inquiry was also supposed to look at the actions of those involved contributed to the collapse, the role of the ...

ESG labelling could 'destabilise' super system: RIAA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025
... 'one-size-fits-all' approach to ESG labelling could "destabilise" the super system and the broader market for responsible investment products. It said a blunt instrument simply cannot be applied to super products, which are inherently complex and diversified. ...

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

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
... 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 on unsolicited selling and lead generation ...

Evidentia names chief risk, operating officer

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2025
... senior roles at Perpetual's private wealth business, including general manager of product and investments, and head of products. At Evidentia, Komadina will oversee operational infrastructure, risk management and regulatory compliance. This is the last ...

Adviser banned for UGC, Shield involvement

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2025
... identify clients' objectives and needs, the subject matter of advice, or conduct a reasonable investigation of the financial products. ASIC has since imposed interim stop orders on the Pivotal Diversified Fund and froze assets of GCPF. As a result, Rankin ...

Aberdeen to terminate three funds

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... that the continuation of these funds would not be in shareholders' best interests and could hinder optimisation of other products. The abrdn Multi-Asset Income Fund has $71.40 million in funds under management (FUM) as at 31 July 2025, according to data ...