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ASIC issues interim stop orders to La Trobe Financial

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2025
La Trobe Financial has been told by ASIC to stop offering its 12 Month Term Account and 2 Year Account products offered under the La Trobe Australian Credit Fund, as well as its US Private Credit Fund. The regulator said it is concerned that the target ...

APRA to hunt for new deputy chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2025
... her term. "It has been a difficult decision to move on from such a critical role in a highly respected regulator with first rate colleagues and a vital mission for Australia and its people," Cole said. "But leadership is about taking the right decisions ...

Australia maintains global retirement security ranking: Natixis

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2025
Australia has maintained its 7th rank globally for retirement security even as more Australians believe it is increasingly more difficult to retire securely. Natixis Investment Managers Global Retirement Index (GRI) showed across the sub categories ...

Private markets, asset class correlations upending 60-40 portfolio

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2025
... be unstable and changes over time. In 2022, for example, that correlation between credit risk and equity risk and interest rate risk turned very positive and moderated a little bit," he told a GSFM event in Sydney. Marshall points to the correlation ...

Greece launches new innovation, infrastructure fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2025
Greece has launched a new arm of its sovereign wealth fund, focused on investments in technology, innovation and infrastructure. The Hellenic Innovation & Infrastructure Fund (HIIF) will serve as the investment arm of Growthfund, the existing national ...

Rest invests $390m in US REIT

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2025
Rest has made a $390 million (US$250m) contribution as part of a co-investment with funds managed by Blue Owl Capital into US-based real estate investment trust STORE Capital. The super fund said the property investment shows how growing demand for ...

ANZ fined $240m for bond trading, retail misconduct

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2025
ANZ has copped a whopping $240 million fine for bank-wide "unconscionable conduct" that includes admitting it was guilty of misleading the government over the $14 billion bond scandal. The misconduct relates to five separate matters spanning the retail ...

AMP settles class action for $120m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2025
AMP has settled a class action brought against N.M. Superannuation, AMP Superannuation and AMP Services, agreeing to pay $120 million. The class action was brought on behalf of superannuation clients and their beneficiaries for the period of July 2008 ...

Retirees unfairly targeted by tax: HESTA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
... highest tax rates, the findings show age pensioners are hit with far higher effective rates due to the Income Test taper rate. Under this system, a part pensioner's Age Pension benefit is reduced by 50 cents for every dollar earned above the income-free ...

FEATURE: Back in action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
... perspective', what we might then find is that they can do an equity release," he explains. "The benefit with that is the interest rate payable is typically a lot less because it's secured against the home and it's not linked to any particular stocks. ...