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FSC ups expectations on platform trustees' governance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2026
... "Ensuring that trustees are appropriately equipped to discharge these responsibilities is essential to maintaining member trust and confidence in wrap superannuation platforms as a vehicle for retirement savings," the FSC said. In releasing the standard ...

IFPA chief executive to exit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2026
... becomes." "The organisation has built something genuinely valuable in terms of the community, the conversations, and the trust of its membership. That foundation gives IFPA every reason to be ambitious about what the next chapter looks like." Wilson ...

Digital advice spurring demand for full personal advice: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2026
... will normalise the use of unregulated digital and AI-based tools before institutional confidence catches up. Rebuilding trust after that shift will be materially harder," the report warned. "Delay will not preserve the status quo, but it will expand ...

Mutual Trust promotes executive to head of investment solutions

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2026
Family office Mutual Trust has promoted one of its directors to the newly created role to reinforce its contemporary wealth offering. Hemant Govan, previously head of research and portfolio management and stationed at the company for over nine years ...

FEATURE: Private equity | Time to deploy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2026
... cash will be deployed this year as firms need to set "realistic expectations". Being selective For Australian Retirement Trust (ART) general manager, growth assets Elizabeth Kumaru, realistic expectations and ensuring the best possible outcomes for members ...

Australia is 'laissez-faire' on eligibility for semi-liquid investments: Morningstar

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2026
While investors in the US are becoming increasingly acquainted with semi-liquid structures, the story is vastly different here in Australia due to its regulatory landscape, Morningstar said. Morningstar's Demystifying Semiliquid Fund Structures - An ...

UK's Nest to invest $860m in private companies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2026
The UK's largest pension scheme by members has selected a manager to oversee a significant new open-ended mandate. Crescent Capital Group will manage a direct lending mandate for Nest to the tune of $858.5 million (£450m). The money is to be deployed ...

CFS awards $370m mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2026
... risk-adjusted returns for our members," said CFS chief investment officer Jonathan Armitage. Morrison is the manager of Utilities Trust of Australia (UTA ), which acquired an additional 60% stake from Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan to take full ownership ...

Regal Partners appoints chair-elect

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2026
... Australia's largest life insurers, having served on the board in various committees since 2010. He is also a director of Mutual Trust and the Australian Japan Business Co-operation Committee (AJBCC), chair of the Australian Science Media Centre and the ...

Former super fund chief to steer new fund manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2026
... is deeply Western Australian in character, genuinely excellent in its investment approach, and built on relationships of trust with investors and partners alike. "We are delighted to welcome Ben to the Affinity Group." For his part, Palmer said: "Affinity ...