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Performance test review to allow funds to 'innovate'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
... opportunity exists to modernise this test, to ensure that it is fit for purpose for future opportunities. Regulation should not be set and forget." Delahunty said the performance test has given rise to "unintended consequences", including benchmark hugging ...

CBA appoints head of Australian economics

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2025
... delivering timely, actionable insights, informed by key economic indicators and the Bank's unique and comprehensive financial data set." Before joining CBA, Allen spent over a decade at Colonial First State Global Asset Management (now First Sentier) ...

Equity Trustees sued over Shield Master Fund failures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2025
... provided efficiently, honestly and fairly. "This is the first action against a superannuation trustee in relation to this complex set of investigations and we expect more cases to come," Court said. "Our first priority has been preserving assets for ...

Regal sees inflows rise 120% to $1.9bn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2025
... said he was pleased with the group's performance. "I am pleased to share that Regal Partners has delivered another strong set of results for the half year, marked by both positive investment performance and healthy net inflows," O'Connor said. "Pleasingly ...

APRA sets higher cybersecurity expectations for trustees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
Trustees' cyber-resilience is riding high on APRA's enforcement agenda over the next four years, but in the short term the regulator warned it will escalate action where necessary if they cannot prove to have basic measures in place. The prudential ...

Global X ETFs on a hiring spree, readies for $12bn FUM

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
... leapfrogged State Street in June this year ) Global X is one of the fastest growing companies in the sector. In 2023, it had set a target of growing its asset base from $6.2 billion to $10 billion within two years. It has surpassed that number and Zaika ...

Future Fund taps AustralianSuper for property director

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2025
Future Fund has appointed its executive director, property, joining from AustralianSuper in October. John Richmond is set to take on the role and is currently the senior investment director of Australian and New Zealand property, real assets at AustralianSuper. ...

Funds SA pushes for efficiencies with AI targets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2025
Targets around the use of artificial intelligence (AI) will be baked into the performance plans of every staff member at the centralised investment manager. Funds SA is rolling out an AI strategy, aimed at boosting efficiencies and productivity within ...

Adviser banned for UGC, Shield involvement

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2025
... representative of Next Generation Advice between 13 September 2021 and 11 November 2022 when he allegedly recommended his clients set up self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) and invest most of their retirement savings into the funds. ASIC said Rankin ...

Leaders push for overseas skills recognition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
Industry group leaders and politicians have come together to urge the government to prioritise reform of Australia's overseas skills recognition system at this week's Economic Reform Roundtable. In its submission to the Economic Reform Roundtable, the ...