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LGT Wealth Management names head of family advisory

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2026
... wealth structuring and governance, guiding families and not-for-profit boards through the intricacies of succession planning, risk management, growth strategies for emerging businesses and asset protection. She also serves as an independent adviser to ...

Adviser gap could boost equity release products: Homesafe

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2026
... Australians than ever reaching retirement still carrying a mortgage, with modest super balances and increasing longevity risk - yet access to affordable, high-quality financial advice has never been harder to secure. "In an environment where advice is ...

Advisers prioritise robust planning, education in retirement planning

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2026
... prominent. "What we want to do as advisers, as professionals, working with clients is help to improve their literacy about risk and return, help them understand that we put this plan in place, and how we can be confident with sticking to that plan," ...

SMSFs need to stay ahead of the regulatory curve: Nowinfinity

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2026
... said a more rigorous approach to the establishment, ongoing administration, and winding-up of SMSFs will help reduce the risk of non-compliance. She suggested to "slow down" the SMSF establishment process to undergo a more detailed identity check to ...

Product showcase: Strength amid noise

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2026
... consideration, it is not the defining factor when a loan opportunity is originated. "Every loan is assessed against an AI-risk evaluation framework to test the companies' revenue model vulnerability, dependence on emerging AI technologies, cost pressures ...

Aware Super overhauls investment team structure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2026
... and scale, so too has the need for faster, more accurate and integrated decision making across asset classes, liquidity and risk spectrum," Warner said. "This structure is about empowering the portfolio to work as a whole, rather than silos, and ensure ...

SMSFs avoid advisers due to lack of asset-specific support

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2026
... SMSFs. Burgess said that although only a small portion of money is invested in crypto, SMSFs with lower balances are at higher risk of not achieving returns compared to larger funds, noting that these smaller balances need to achieve "exceptional" returns ...

AustralianSuper risk lead jumps to rival

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2026
Skye Stevenson, former head of investment compliance and operational risk at AustralianSuper, has left the $410 billion fund to join Rest Super in a newly created Sydney-based role. Rest Super has appointed Stevenson general manager, investment governance. ...

Super moves: Future Fund, NZ Super, Aware Super, VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2026
... Perpetual's head of investment analytics has emerged at Victoria Funds Management Corporation as a senior manager, investment risk. Before his six years with Perpetual, James Thompson worked at Henderson Global Investors, Equity Trustees and Bluebay ...

ART taps ex-HESTA manager for opportunistic role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2026
A former HESTA portfolio construction and risk manager has emerged at Australian Retirement Trust. Australia's second-largest superannuation fund has appointed Michael Sommers as senior portfolio manager, opportunistic strategies. Sommers' mandate ...