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Fidante loses $11.4bn in insto money

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2025
Challenger's Fidante Partners lost $11.4 billion in institutional client money in the last financial year with the majority of it exiting fixed income investments. The lion's share of $7 billion in net outflows left fixed income strategies while ...

Commonwealth Super names chief risk and compliance officer

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... she will be responsible for the governance, risk management, compliance, and legal functions across various operations and major projects of the organisation. With a legal background, Versace brings risk advisory and compliance expertise from various ...

Iress adds AI chief to drive innovation

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
... delivering customer experiences through AI for three years. Before AWS, he was a program leader in IT for three of the four major banks in Australia - Westpac, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and NAB between 2008 and 2017. He also brings experience from ...

Funds SA finalises investment team overhaul

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
... which manages the investments of 13 different super fund, endowment and insurer clients including Super SA, undertook a major operational review late last year with "the final piece of the puzzle" being a realignment of the investment team. When Con ...

Super board moves: ART, Aware, Brighter Super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
August is a season for reporting - and board appointments. Three major super funds ART, Aware and Brighter Super announce their latest additions. At Australian Retirement Trust (ART), multiple chair appointee Anthony Lynham will join the board on August ...

Elanor rebuffs Lederer's governance concerns

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
... transparent and accountable corporate governance, and the initiatives being implemented are consistent with those adopted by major Australian REIT managers." In light of the proposal and to represent the interests of ECF securityholders, Elanor said ...

RBA cuts rates, experts debate next moves

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
... incorporate further declines in the cash rate in line with current market expectations," Bassanese said. "That said, barring a major growth scare, the RBA does not seem in any rush to cut interest rates. While there are risks to both the global and local ...

Norway sovereign wealth fund divests 11 Israeli companies, cuts mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... Airbnb, Palantir Technologies, Volvo, BNP Paribas and Caterpillar. Albanese also highlighted BlackRock and Vanguard as the major asset managers profiting from "sustaining the illegal Israeli occupation [of Palestinian territories] and its ongoing genocidal ...

Four men charged over sophisticated bond scam

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
... prospectuses and other documentation which ASIC described as "high quality, mimicking or copying actual prospectuses from major financial services providers." The fake investments ranged from one to 10 year-terms with fixed returns between 4.5% and 9.5% ...

Chalmers calls for solutions, not problems

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
... identified growing global uncertainty, including supply chain issues, and greater power struggles between economies, as major threats to Australia's economy. It also pointed to the population ageing, shifts in industrial composition, rapid changes in ...