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Commonwealth Super delivers 'resilient' performance for FY25

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
... assets under management of $28.02 billion as at June end. CSC attributed the performance to the diversification of "high-quality" assets, including innovative businesses typically out of reach from smaller investors. "CSC's goal is to support our customers ...

New Forests beefs up local landscapes fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2025
... Wagyu. It has two main holdings, Benditi Aggregation and Glen Eagle, and covers about 8400 hectares. "The McPhee asset is a quality business which aligns perfectly with our whole of landscape approach where we can position investors to benefit from the ...

Winners named in annual IMAP Managed Account Awards

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
... IMAP chair Toby Potter. Commenting, Potter noted that there were more entrants this year than ever before, increasing the quality and standards of the profession. "We are demanding ever higher standards of ourselves as a profession and this is reflected ...

ASIC freezes assets of First Mutual Private Equity

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
... entrepreneurs with backgrounds in property, equities and commodities across Australasia. "Integrating four key principles of quality governance including accountability, transparency, fairness and responsibility, we pride ourselves on synthesising the ...

Grattan calls for large scale tax reform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
... tax reform when presenting at the three-day Economic Reform Roundtable. "A good tax system raises the revenue to fund quality public services. A better tax system does that more efficiently, fairly, and in a way that is simple to comply with and administer. ...

Netwealth reports record FY25 results

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
... bring the total dividends for FY25 to 38.5 cents per share, an increase of 10.5 cents on FY24. Netwealth attributed the quality of offering and key platform functionality as the key driver of the FUA net flows. "Netwealth will continue to invest to build ...

Only half of advice practices report positive earnings: Investment Trends

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2025
... Net Promoter Scores (NPS) rising from +1% in 2024 to +11% in 2025. This has resulted in a heightened demand for "high quality" operative support spanning technical assistance, advice enablement, and compliance among advisers, Investment Trends said ...

ASIC turns spotlight on direct life sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2025
... despite them often being the first to identify problems. The second is to improve sales and pay practices by enhancing quality assurance processes, and by linking sales staff pay to compliance and customer satisfaction measures. Insurers must also apply ...

VanEck goes for growth with new ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
VanEck has launched a new exchange-traded fund (ETF) to complement its international quality, value and small cap strategies. VanEck MSCI International Growth ETF (ASX: GWTH) will be available on the ASX from August 28, pending final regulatory approval. ...

Special feature: Hunting for value

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... point. The fiscal has also tended to be more constrained." Kent also points to EM indices, and says they are now of higher quality than they have been in the past, meaning more resilience and more "in built" diversification whether the indices are local ...