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Rest, NZ Super Fund top global rankings for best practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
Rest and the NZ Super Fund have bagged a perfect score in GlobalSWF's GSR scoreboard for governance, sustainability, and resilience. Established in 2020, the annual study examines all the publicly available information from the world's largest sovereign ...

New SMSF industry body launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... into diversified retirement portfolios, while ensuring trustees navigate digital economy opportunities with proper governance." Banton commented that digital assets are now part of SMSF portfolios, but reporting and audit standards have not kept up. ...

Future Fund cleared to manage select asset classes in-house

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... hybrid model of investing in many instances, including in infrastructure, where it uses an external manager but retains governance rights that entitle it to board seats. Future Fund is also scaling up its use of co-investment sleeves that allow it to ...

Ascalon hires from SCM, Zenith and GQG

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... and served as a core member of Zenith's investment committee, where he guided multi-asset solutions and portfolio governance at scale At Ascalon, Davis will lead strategic investment consulting. For her part, Flygare brings over 15 years of frontline ...

ASIC launches fresh inquiry into ASX

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
ASIC has launched another inquiry into the ASX, this time focusing on its overall governance, capability, risk management frameworks and practices. The inquiry will be led by a panel that will make recommendations to address any identified shortcomings ...

ASIC reads the riot act to the super industry: Longo

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... Regulator Luncheon Series that the regulator has exposed shortcomings and blind spots with regards to super fund's governance and customer service. "ASIC's work has laid bare governance challenges, and exposed super trustee board blind spots around their ...

ASX offloads interest in Digital Asset

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... the path we were on will not meet ASX's and the market's high standards. There are significant technology, governance and delivery challenges that must be addressed." More recently, the ASX has revealed the cost of the CHESS Release 2 could be ...

King's honours list recognises excellence in super, finance

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... Australian Retirement Trust and member of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) Monetary Policy Board. As an expert in governance in the private and public sector, Charles Macek has served on the board of Emergency Services Superannuation Scheme ...

Regulators note advances in life insurers' practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... consumers and fixed the relevant systems and processes. The regulators also noted that life companies reviewed their risk governance practices, leading to "some improvements to better deal with the risks identified in the review. Regarding marketing ...

iCapital hires Insignia exec to open office

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
... Insignia Financial, where he served as chief distribution officer, overseeing sales, client relationships, and product governance. He departed the financial services giant last year when chief executive Scott Harley unveiled a new operating model and ...