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Strengthen Life Code for mental health crisis, claims handling: Review

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2026
... the Life Code, which kicked off on 1 October 2025. In response, he received 14 submissions in total. The Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI) chief executive Christine Cupitt commented the independent review is an important part of the industry's ...

Former super fund chief to steer new fund manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2026
... Santa Maria said of Palmer. "Ben shares Affinity's vision: to build a funds management business that is deeply Western Australian in character, genuinely excellent in its investment approach, and built on relationships of trust with investors and partners ...

ASIC concerns over Interprac sale 'unfounded': Sequoia

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2026
... would mean for Interprac's creditors, noting two lead determinations have been made against the licensee by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) regarding its involvement in the Shield and First Guardian collapses. "Sequoia believes ...

SMSF Adviser Network shuts its doors, 85 advisers vanish from FAR

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2026
... not specific products, under authorisation provided by the National Tax & Accountants' Association's (NTAA) Australian financial services licence (AFSL). According to Padua WealthData, there was a net decline of 88 advisers this week, 85 of which ...

Concerns raised over super switching consultation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2026
Financial services consultant Ben Walsh has called out concerns with Treasury's super switching consultation, saying parts of it miss the mark. Walsh said the consultation focuses on "the 'switch' as the point of failure" while ignoring a "massive 'user ...

Super Consumers Australia raises concerns over Treasury reforms

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2026
... Treasury proposes revising the treatment of counterfactual loss for CSLR-eligible financial advice complaints. The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) generally determines loss in financial advice complaints using a counterfactual ('but ...

Charter Hall secures $1.2bn mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2026
... $760 million. In June last year Charter Hall received a $2.1 billion mandate from Challenger Life to manage its direct Australian property assets. The group also has some major security holders including HSBC, J P Morgan, Citi, BNP Paribas, First Sentier ...

Cbus names new chief technology officer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2026
... markets at Alinta Energy where she led a major re-platforming of the retail business. Before that she spent 15 years with Australian Unity as chief executive, healthcare and group executive of customer, digital and technology. Hagan also has previously ...

FEATURE: Global equities | Triaging tech's second act

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2026
"I think the odds are on our side." That was the message from Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei at the World Economic Forum in Davos, as the race for global dominance in artificial intelligence (AI) gains historic pace. Anthropic is building the ...

Sale of Interprac raises eyebrows at ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2026
... could adversely affect Interprac's creditors, including its liabilities in relation to complaints sitting with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) regarding the collapse of the Shield and First Guardian Master Funds. There are currently ...