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Former Statewide Super executives acquitted

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... Netting and Eastwood were acquitted of all charges following a trial in the District Court of South Australia. Financial Standard understands Eastwood was dismissed by the jury while Netting made a successful no case to answer application, with there ...

iExtend hires national BDM

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
iExtend has expanded its distribution team by appointing a national business development specialist, hiring from Resolution Life. In the newly created role, David Sutjipto will work closely with financial advisers to enhance the client experience and ...

FINSIA's struggle to find scale

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... years FINSIA has reported financial losses of more than $11 million, something which president David Cox tells Financial Standard came about as the organisation faced some "structural challenges". "When you look at FINSIA and member organisations that ...

BlackRock looks to add Bitcoin ETF to local suite

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... 82.67% since inception in January 2024. It has a 100% weighting in Bitcoin and charges a 0.25% management fee. Financial Standard understands BlackRock is looking to tap into the growing demand from Australian investors for dedicated products investing ...

APRA lifts final Westpac capital add-on

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... Therese McCarthy Hockey added that as a "systemically important bank" APRA expects Westpac to hold itself to the requisite standard of prudent risk management and governance practices. "Completion of this risk transformation program is a vital step in ...

Classic 60/40 approach underdelivers for women retirees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
... time. For the first 10 years, Monash used 25-year rolling mean returns of 5.59% for equities and 1.23% for bonds. The standard deviation for equities was 13.49% and 7.32% for bonds, with 0.508 correlation. For years 11-25, it assumed a return of 6.69% ...

ASIC exposes holes in managed funds' offshoring cyber controls

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025
... countries in a 12-month period," ASIC said. In May, Lifestyle Solutions Financial Planning's Daniel Boce told Financial Standard that his personal assistant located in the Philippines was denied information relating to a third-party authority sent ...

Insurers design framework for dealing with mental health claims

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025
The Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI) is developing an industry action plan for mental health claims over the next 12 months, working with an expert panel from related fields to ensure claimants are assessed appropriately. The framework will ...

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 ...

End of an era: Longtime Platinum exec exits

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
... communicator for adviser presentations. After five years, he left for a brief stint in Singapore, where he helped build Standard Chartered's equities broking business. He returned to work with Neilson in 2013 as an investment specialist, strengthening ...