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ANZ fined $240m for bond trading, retail misconduct

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2025
ANZ has copped a whopping $240 million fine for bank-wide "unconscionable conduct" that includes admitting it was guilty of misleading the government over the $14 billion bond scandal. The misconduct relates to five separate matters spanning the retail ...

QIC backs first-of-its-kind battery supply chain in Qld

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
QIC, by way of a senior secured loan facility, has invested $10 million in Vecco group on a critical minerals project. In partnership with industrial heavyweight Idemitsu Australia, the funding will progress the fully integrated mining and processing ...

Retirees unfairly targeted by tax: HESTA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
Australians receiving the Age Pension are often subjected to higher marginal tax rates of 60% to 80%, disincentivising them from being more active in the workforce, new research from HESTA suggests. The research said in some extreme cases, these rates ...

FEATURE: Back in action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
As the old saying goes, 'you've got to spend money to make money.' And, as equity markets continue their strong run and global uncertainty calms, geared strategies have been making a comeback. But for those thinking a geared strategy is a good way to ...

GSFM becomes exclusive distributor for Auscap

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2025
GSFM has become the exclusive distributor of Auscap Asset Management's two Australian equities funds in Australia and New Zealand. The Auscap High Conviction Australian Equities Fund commenced in December 2012 and was previously called the Auscap ...

Cbus welcomes new head of risk transformation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
Cbus has welcomed Sandra Burns in the newly created role of group head of risk transformation. Cbus said Burns will lead the fund's enterprise-wide risk transformation program, designing, implementing and embedding Cbus' approach to risk. Burns will ...

Perth man found guilty of $34m fraud

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2025
A Supreme Court jury has found Perth businessman Chris Marco guilty of fraud following a five-week trial, after he swindled six investors out of $34 million. Marco's former executive assistant, Linda Marissen, was acquitted of all charges of fraud. ...

NZ Super delivers 11.84%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2025
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has delivered a pre-tax return of 11.84% after costs for the year ended 30 June 2025. Total fund size was up $8.4 billion from a year earlier, ending the 2025 financial year at $85.1 billion. Guardians of New Zealand ...

Allow couples tax-free super splitting: Hume

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
A bill that would allow couples to split their collective superannuation balances evenly between them to improve the gender super gap was tabled in Parliament yesterday. The Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Tackling the Gender Super Gap) Bill 2025 ...

Two CBA class action appeals dismissed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has defeated the appeals from the Zonia and Baron shareholder class actions in the Federal Court. The Full Court concluded that the appellants did not prove any loss, and there was no award of damages. The two class actions related ...