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Vital Business Partners names chief executive

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026
... automation, paraplanning, administration support, and a range of business consulting services including business coaching, and practice management training and workshops. Meanwhile, John Nantes has been appointed executive director of Godfrey Pembroke ...

Buyer beware: Private credit as a defensive play

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2026
Financial advisers grapple finding a meaningful place for private credit in portfolios as investment experts urge them to carefully consider the risks of making it part of the defensive allocation. The Stockbrokers and Investment Advisers Association ...

Super funds get ahead of proposed minimum service standards: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2026
A new report from KPMG finds superannuation funds are getting ahead for the government's proposed minimum service standards set for 2028, including embedding better accountability for service outcomes in their processes following a debacle of administration ...

Combating modern slavery difficult but not impossible: RIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2026
While it might be challenging to construct a truly modern-slavery-risk free investment portfolio, it is not impossible, a sustainability expert says, who will help wealth managers combat such risks at next week's Responsible Investment Association ...

Sequoia delays dividend amid InterPrac sale uncertainty

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2026
... shares in InterPrac to Conquest would have meant the latter taking on all assets and liabilities of the troubled advice practice. InterPrac currently has a professional indemnity (PI) insurance policy worth $20 million covering the failures of Shield ...

NZ Super 'accepts' court loss, updates policy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2026
The Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation (Guardians), the manager of the $90 billion New Zealand Superannuation Fund, has confirmed it will not appeal a recent Judicial Review which found two of its policy documents were not formulated in accordance ...

Future Fund executive departs after 10 years

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2026
... Jolly Rambler, Grant will work with Australian and global institutional asset owners to apply investment governance best practice to their technology and data programs. "The world's leading asset owners operate their investment programs with rigorous ...

ASX Advisory Group gives update on corporate governance revision

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2026
... appropriately reward long-term value creation, while preserving independence. "The AGCG will continue to assess evolving practice, including through ongoing engagement with market participants and regulators," it said. They will next meet on 8 July 2026. ...

ASFA expands technical implementation service

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2026
... work through the complex and costly work of implementing regulatory change. AIP will complete the sector's policy-to-practice puzzle," ASFA chief executive Mary Delahunty said. "AIP has long supported important work like SuperStream, the Division ...

Product showcase: A guaranteed future

THE FINANCIAL STANDARD TEAM  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2026
... together, the three pillars of protected growth, guaranteed income, and flexibility, make AGILE simple to position in practice, as part of the advice process. "It's not all or nothing, it's a tool that advisers can use to balance growth, certainty ...