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Insurers design framework for dealing with mental health claims

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025
... next 12 months, working with an expert panel from related fields to ensure claimants are assessed appropriately. The framework will support long-term affordability and industry sustainability and deliver greater clarity, fairness, and transparency for ...

ASIC slams licensees' lax offshoring governance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2025
Most financial advice licensees that rely on offshore service providers (OSPs) fail to adequately assess, monitor and audit their arrangements thus putting their processes and business at risk, a new ASIC investigation reveals. ASIC's review of 10 financial ...

MSCI launches global framework for private assets

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2025
Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) have launched MSCI PACS, a new proprietary asset classification framework for private markets. MSCI PACS was designed to streamline organisation, comparability and consistency to private market assets, from ...

Tim Unger to depart ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
Australian Retirement Trust is losing one of the country's most prominent sustainability specialists, with veteran ESG expert Tim Unger set to depart at the end of the month. Unger, senior portfolio manager of sustainable investments, is tasked ...

ASIC raises alarm on auditor independence, conflicts of interest

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
... Chadwick (NSW). While independence requirements are prescriptive under the Corporations Act 2001, ASIC said the legal framework "requires that auditors ensure that they are unaffected, and are seen to be unaffected, by influences that could compromise ...

Aware Super enhances portfolio management capabilities

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
Aware Super has integrated Ortec Finance's performance measurement and attribution software to enhance its ability to measure and manage investment performance, including improved currency hedge capabilities, across its portfolio. The software ...

Platform trustees told to improve investment governance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2025
The regulator has written to platform trustees in the wake of the First Guardian and Shield Master Fund collapses, alerting them to the need to strengthen their investment governance processes. In its letter, it shared initial findings from the thematic ...

ASIC sues Fiducian for ESG failures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
... compliance documents identified any ESG related risks and included commensurate controls; comply with its own risk management framework including the procedure for reviewing PDSs; and engage or employ an ESG expert to review or monitor the fund. ASIC ...

Australia dominates APAC real estate private credit raisings

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
... investors, this creates access to scalable opportunities targeting net returns of 9-12%, supported by a transparent legal framework and a stable market environment." Meanwhile, Knight Frank director, capital advisory, global capital markets Simon Mathews ...

Global X expands GARP suite with fresh ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025
... GARP Index as the underlying index for Global X's new ETF product launch." "This innovative index applies the GARP framework to the S&P/ASX 200 universe, focusing on growth opportunities while incorporating valuation and quality considerations in ...