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Clime gains ground on culture, business model reset

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
Not done with pulling Clime Investment Management out of the red, managing director Michael Baragwanath's bold plans to turn the ship around entail a product and culture overhaul, and even giving away his short-term incentives (STI) to staff. After ...

Feature: Digital advice | Sleeping giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
... businesses. But they show that they absolutely kill us on marketing and how they acquire customers. They have to be aggressive on that front. They have very sophisticated customer acquisition strategies we can learn from," Worn says. A larger number ...

Former staffer sues ASX, Lofthouse over bullying

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2025
... Court, seen and reported by the Australian Financial Review, Halstead is accusing Lofthouse of being "frequently passive-aggressive and belittling in her demeanour". Financial Standard reached out to legal representatives for both Halstead and Lofthouse ...

World's pension market hits $36.9tn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
... structural and strategic differences. Industry super funds have benefited from strong member inflows, consolidation and more aggressive investment strategies, particularly in private markets and infrastructure," Boston-Clark said. "In contrast, government ...

Commonwealth Super delivers 'resilient' performance for FY25

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
... for members of the Australian Defence Force - returned 10.5% in the same period. The results were similar between the aggressive options of PSSap (11.5%) and ADF Super (11.4%). The Income Focused option, designed for lower capital value variation, delivered ...

High-risk super options pay off: Morningstar

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
... higher-risk options, according to Morningstar's inaugural Superannuation 360 Quarterly report. The report found that Aggressive and Growth peer group averages led the way, returning 5.78% and 4.68% respectively, as equity markets rebounded sharply. The ...

Institutional investors show signs uncertainty has peaked: State Street

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2025
... despite numerous potential pitfalls for financial markets in Q3, institutional investors remain optimistic. "Their aggressive buying of risky assets mirrors the fervour seen in November 2020, when COVID vaccines were announced. This suggests that investors ...

ASIC calls out trustees 'passing the buck' on super switching

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
... yesterday, ASIC chair Joe Longo reiterated that the regulators are investigating the entire ecosystem that propped up aggressive super-switching schemes, starting with advice licensees using lead generation services through to platforms that host the ...

Section 899 ditched but companies face tax uncertainties

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2025
... typically involve a "punch in the nose and then coming back and reconcile." "We look through that and do what I call 'aggressive rebalance of equity markets', meaning when the equity market fell [upon the shock tariff headlines] we were buying ...

Instos turn to risk as volatility lessens: State Street

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
Institutional investors are aggressively buying into risk as stocks are reaching new highs, likely spurred by falling market volatility as Australia sees surges in local investments, new data from State Streeet finds. The State Street Risk Appetite ...