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Industry bodies call for delay to Payday Super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
A collective of industry bodies, including Chartered Accountants ANZ and the Financial Advice Association Australia, want the government to push the implementation of Payday Super to July 2028. In a joint submission to Treasury, eight industry lobby ...

Global X recruits key executives

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
Global X ETFS Australia has appointed a head of operations and finance lead and will shortly hire a senior business development manager to boost growth efforts in Western Australia. The exchange-traded fund provider's operations lead, Steven Romei ...

Mercer Super recruits whistleblower as risk chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
A former UniSuper risk executive has landed at Mercer Superannuation Australia as its new chief risk officer. Mercer Super has confirmed the appointment of Dennis Gentilin - an ex-banker turned whistleblower - to the role. "Dennis' expertise and ...

Super moves: QIC, VFMC, ESSSuper, Aware Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... Price in Australia and New Zealand, transferring to Australia from the firm's London office. While in London, she did short stints at First Sentier Investment and AllianceBernstein on the client services side of the funds management business. Bradshaw ...

Macquarie reprimanded again for derivatives compliance failures

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
ASIC is again taking action against Macquarie Bank for "multiple and significant compliance failures" relating to its futures-dealing business and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives trade reporting. The failures have been undetected for many years ...

Platinum to lose $1bn mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... combined entity receiving participation in performance fees related to the first 5% of absolute returns from the L1 Long Short funds. In an analyst note, Morningstar said some value would be unlocked via a merger, but said it didn't expect any meaningful ...

Future Fund muscles past annual target return, lags in March quarter

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... For its part, Global SWF said, "the government must tread carefully." Investing in housing or infrastructure that fails short of performance benchmarks could "weaken confidence" in the Future Fund's stewardship, it warned. Moreover, if performance ...

HMC Capital progresses re-tenancy of Healthscope hospitals

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... hospital operators in the event the breaches are not remedied," HMC said. Healthscope in response said it "entered into short-term forbearance arrangements with the requisite majority of its senior lenders. The arrangements are in place until May." "These ...

ASIC cancels licence of Brite Advisors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of Brite Advisors after the now-defunct investment and pension firm failed to compensate a client, triggering a payout under the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR). The regulator cancelled ...

Platinum merger no cure for active managers' challenges

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
... combined entity's financial position. "L1 appears to offer a broader product range, including hedge funds (applying long/short strategies), activist funds, and real estate investments. Platinum's offering is more narrowly focused on international equites ...