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Acenda Group assembles board of directors

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... non-executive directors of the merged entity following Acenda's parent company Nippon Life's acquisition of Resolution Life in December 2024. On completion of this transaction, which is expected to occur in the second half of 2025, Resolution Life Australasia ...

ASIC launches fresh inquiry into ASX

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... The inquiry provides an opportunity for ASX to bolster market trust." ASIC will discontinue its investigation of the 20 December 2024 CHESS batch settlement failure and fold it into the broader Inquiry. ASIC is currently suing the ASX in the Federal ...

State Street's plan for power, product, partnerships

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... sixth-largest exchange-traded product (ETP) manager by funds under management (FUM) - $9.7 billion, up 11% over the year to December 2024 - State Street is lagging other major players. Vanguard, the powerhouse in this market, increased its FUM by 33% ...

Australian Ethical names head of equities

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
... encouraging corporates to further their net zero ambitions." Australian Ethical delivered strong half-year results ending 31 December 2024, reporting its net profit after tax increased to $9.3 million, delivered by the success of its growth strategy. ...

Superhero plans 'mass affluent' wealth play

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
... strategy. Nathan Dearinger has been appointed head of risk, joining from Rest where he was head of enterprise risk up until December last year. Prior to that, he held senior risk roles with Westpac and BT Financial Group and is the former head of finance ...

Life insurers report another profitable quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... 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. Life insurers managed to turn the $15 million after-tax loss into $332 million in net profit, partly driven ...

ASIC sues former director of crypto platform owing nearly $60m

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... liquidation, operated a cryptocurrency exchange platform named ACX Exchange between 2016 and 2019. The platform collapsed in December 2019 when customers were unable to withdraw funds or cryptocurrency from their accounts - the liquidator, appointed ...

COVID 'masked' issues at core of productivity problem: PC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... broke the COVID-19 productivity bubble down into three phases. It found that in the initial "reallocation phase", from December 2019 to December 2020, productivity grew as lockdowns shifted the workforce away from industries with lower labour productivity ...

CSLR levy underspend expected as claim processing slows

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2025
... (CSLR) is set to underspend its $24.1 million FY25 levy. The CSLR said that while the claim volume originally estimated in December 2023 is still expected to eventuate, claims have taken longer than anticipated to reach the CSLR and will now be received ...

Franklin Templeton, Pendal funds shutter

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
... benchmark, being the S&P Emerging Markets Infrastructure Index. The Martin Currie Property Securities Fund was incepted on 31 December 1994. It had about $21.2 million at April-end. Requiring a minimum $25,000 investment, the fund aimed to earn an after-fee ...