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JANA executive jumps to Channel

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... strengthen our investment oversight capabilities, deep experience and institutional perspective will help ensure we deliver best-in-class outcomes for our partners and investors." Speaking about his appointment, Griffith said he looked forward to the ...

Equity Trustees rapped over the knuckles by ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... against the benchmark's 1.38%, as at May end. In 2024, the fund was given a 'Recommended' rating by Zenith and was named the Best New Ethical Fund at the Mindful Money Awards. "A responsible entity must have measures in place for ensuring it complies ...

Chalmers champions productivity, urges tax reform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... working-age Australians. "Tax is one of many ways our three primary economic challenges are related..." he said. "And now is the best time to work out the next steps." To that end, Chalmers said that the reform roundtable he's convening in August, which ...

Rest, NZ Super Fund top global rankings for best practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
Rest and the NZ Super Fund have bagged a perfect score in GlobalSWF's GSR scoreboard for governance, sustainability, and resilience. Established in 2020, the annual study examines all the publicly available information from the world's largest sovereign ...

New SMSF industry body launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
The SMSF Innovation Council has launched to provide the SMSF sector with education, advocacy and a best-practice framework to help navigate the digital assets landscape. Chaired by Kate Cooper, the initiative is focused on collaborating and sharing ...

Small industry super funds beat giants on trust, service, value

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... risk, small industry funds need to reframe their communications, she said, emphasising that "big doesn't necessarily mean best," even if that's been perpetuated by a narrative that larger industry funds dish out better outcomes. She said an opportunity ...

Pacific workers face barriers to claiming super: University

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... money paid as wages. Another PALM worker said that the superannuation funds in their country are not being managed in their best interests," Whait said. "After visiting PALM worker locations, we were left with the impression that many PALM workers would ...

IFM Investors chief of staff exits

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... not to be replaced. "Amara has made a great contribution to IFM Investors during her time with us, and we wish her all the best for the future," a spokesperson said. Prior, Haqqani had been with Iress for six months. There, she held several roles including ...

ASIC cancels Financial Services Group Australia's AFSL

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... representatives provided financial product advice that was appropriate to the client's circumstances or in the client's best interests, in relation to certain instances of advice. Among the other failures, FSGA did not have adequate financial ...

Fidelity International launches first global equity SMA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... important role, but fee budgets are shifting away from active equity managers. Recognising this, we wanted to achieve the best of both worlds for our clients in public equities and offer a highly competitive fee structure to rival index funds, with an ...