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Generation Life snags super fund's head of risk

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2026
Generation Life has named its chief risk officer, recruiting from Aware Super. Norlena Brouwer is joining the annuity provider as chief risk officer, after spending over a year as head of business risk and compliance for enablement, transformation and ...

AIOFP partners to launch adviser protection program

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2026
The Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals (AIOFP) is partnering with DASH to provide financial advisers with a new white labelling capability for platform access. The Foundation Advisers Wrap will allow advisers to retain access ...

Rodney Forrest re-sentenced for $3m insider trading

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2026
The Federal Court has re-sentenced former investment manager Rodney Forrest to five years and three months' imprisonment following his appeal for insider trading and procuring others to trade in more than $3 million of Platinum Asset Management shares. ...

ASIC, APRA target insurers' TPD product sustainability

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2026
Regulators are putting the pressure on life insurers to manage problematic issues arising from total and permanent disability (TPD) products offered across the retail and group insurance channels, a recent roundtable heard. ASIC and APRA warned providers ...

Unit trusts FUM 'plateaued': Rainmaker

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2026
Rainmaker Information's latest data highlights that despite a 13% annual growth in funds under management (FUM) across all managed funds, unit trusts only made gains through positive market returns over the 12 months to March end. In the Managed Funds ...

Charter Hall updates FY26 guidance amid strong insto appetite

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2026
Charter Hall group has updated its FY26 guidance, increasing security value based on strong performances from its institutional property funds management (PFM) platform. The group has increased its operating earnings per security from 100 cents to 103 ...

Platforms should be wary of cutting options: Experts

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2026
... restrain client choice. Speaking at the Morningstar Investment Conference 2026 in Sydney, BT Financial Group chief executive Matt Rady noted the role of platforms as a core component of the financial system enabling efficient transition of capital, and ...

Financial services failing to provide consistent outcomes: AFCA

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2026
Latest findings from the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) show that despite frameworks existing for consumer hardship, weaknesses arise in how those policies were implemented in practice. The eighth edition of the Systemic Issues Insight ...

Digital advice now available for Future Super members

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2026
Future Super members are now able to access digital advice via its mobile app, with the capability to be introduced across to Future Group's broader brand offering over time. The super fund announced the partnership with Bravura's Midwinter to bring ...

Feature: Private credit | The fine print

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2026
JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon grabbed headlines last year when speaking at one of the banking giant's quarterly earnings calls. "When you see one cockroach," he told analysts, "there are probably more." The cockroach Dimon was referring ...