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Pacific Equity Partners adds four to local team

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2026
Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) has welcomed an associate director, two associates and an analyst to its Sydney team. The private equity giant has welcomed Luke Porter as associate director within the PEP Gateway team. He joins from Carlyle Group where ...

IFPA chief executive to exit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2026
... Institute of Financial Professionals of Australia (IFPA) has stepped down. Ky Wilson was named IFPA chief executive in July last year after serving as acting general manager for about eight months. She first joined the association in 2021 as head of ...

Advice book valuations stagnate despite demand

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2026
... - not just on growing top-line revenue," it said. Radar Results also highlighted increased demand for AFSLs over the past year, leading to an increase in prices. Now, the sale price for an AFSL ranges across $20,000 to $100,000 or more depending on the ...

Global economy 'drifting' to adverse scenario: IMF

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2026
... projections. The IMF has downgraded its growth projections for 2026, expecting the global economy to slow down to 3.1% in the year from 3.4% in 2024-25. This projection is a "reference forecast" and assumes the Middle East conflict will have limited ...

NGS Super awards mandate to Milliman FRM

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2026
... crucial step in expanding the fund's indexing range. The super fund, which had about $17.5 billion at the end of last year, appointed GROW Inc. as its administrator to replace Mercer effective 1 November 2025. Also from that date, NGS Super's ...

HESTA taps ESSSuper head as next chief executive

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2026
... non-executive director of Victoria Legal Aid and as a director at Industry Fund Services. HESTA chair Nicola Roxon said Campo's 26-year career in superannuation made her a standout choice for the position. "Robbie brings extensive experience across executive ...

Mutual Trust promotes executive to head of investment solutions

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2026
Family office Mutual Trust has promoted one of its directors to the newly created role to reinforce its contemporary wealth offering. Hemant Govan, previously head of research and portfolio management and stationed at the company for over nine years ...

SMC calls for guaranteed super for domestic workers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2026
... 2026-27, with roughly 86% of the workforce being women. SMC estimates on average, each worker misses out on almost $4000 a year in super contributions, amounting to nearly $150 million nationwide, with women missing out on about $126 million in that ...

'Not much' RBA can do about short-term inflation woes: Hauser

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2026
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) deputy governor Andrew Hauser said the central bank is focused on getting inflation back in line over the medium to long term while acknowledging the short-term outlook remains bleak. Speaking at an event in New York ...

JBWere makes senior advice hires

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2026
JBWere has named an executive, advice and head of advice for NSW/ACT. Daniel Walsh has been appointed executive, advice at JBWere following several years in Morgan Stanley's wealth management division as an executive director and NSW state manager. ...