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FNZ chief executive steps down

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2026
FNZ chief executive Blythe Masters has resigned after two years in the top job as Stephen Welch assumes the role of executive group chair and interim chief executive. Masters will continue to support FNZ in an advisory capacity for six months to help ...

Pengana-WAM feud over PIA comes to an end

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2026
Wilson Asset Management's (WAM) Geoff Wilson and his allies will exit the board of Pengana International Equities (PIA) following the settlement of the Pengana Capital Group-initiated lawsuit that failed to stop a highly contested buyback. The listed ...

ASIC extends wholesale markets pact with FMSB

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2026
ASIC has extended its cooperation with the Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) for another three years, continuing a partnership focused on the development of global standards for fair and effective wholesale financing markets. The extension will ...

Esencia merges with HNW advice practice

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2026
A Sydney-based practice advising high-net-worth (HNW) individuals is merging with Esencia Wealth, adding some 250 clients and two senior advisers to the firm. Generation Wealth Partners is joining Esencia Wealth, also based in Sydney, saying the merger ...

First Super appoints new chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2026
First Super has appointed a new chief executive who was part of LUCRF Super's leadership team for 18 years. Tim Kennedy will commence in the new role on October 5. He recently served as the national secretary of the United Workers Union (UWU), which ...

Australian life insurers lag global peers: Capgemini

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2026
A new survey from Capgemini found that Australian life insurers are stowed behind the global average when it comes to member engagement and educational efforts. According to Capgemini's The World Life Insurance Report 2027, which is based on a global ...

Tribunal affirms InterPrac, FSGA adviser bans

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2026
The Administrative Review Tribunal has affirmed ASIC's decisions to ban two former financial advisers from InterPrac Financial Planning and Financial Services Group Australia (FSGA) who were involved in the Shield and First Guardian master funds ...

End of an era as Bowater leaves Frontier

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2026
Industry veteran Kim Bowater is leaving Frontier Advisors after 24 years, marking the departure of one of the asset consultant's most senior figures. The director of consulting started at Frontier in 2002, climbing the ranks to reach the firm's ...

Netwealth recruits AI expert to boost in-house advice tech

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2026
Netwealth has appointed data intelligence expert and technologist Silvio Giorgio as general manager of data and artificial intelligence (AI). An immediate focus for Giorgio will be to aggregate multiple sources of data for advisers, helping organise ...

Crole banned for 10 years after abrupt exit from Sequoia

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2026
ASIC has banned former Sequoia Financial Group managing director and chief executive Garry Crole for 10 years, following the events that unfolded under his leadership. Crole was a director of InterPrac Financial Planning from 20 August 2004 to 1 December ...