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APRA flags growing trustee complacency on retirement strategies

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
APRA is concerned about a growing lack of urgency among superannuation trustees to develop and implement retirement income strategies. APRA deputy chair Margaret Cole, speaking at the Innovation in Retirement conference in Sydney, said the APRA-ASIC ...

ASX announces changes following independent review

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
The ASX said it would implement recommendations from an independent panel review on the process for developing corporate governance principles and recommendations. In June, ASX informed members of the Corporate Governance Council that it had established ...

Former Statewide Super executives acquitted

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
Two former Statewide Super executives who were terminated by the fund and then charged with dishonesty offences have been acquitted. In January 2020, Statewide Super terminated its chief risk officer Kieran Netting and chief financial and operating ...

Regal Partners revamp sees promotion

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
Regal Partners' move to integrate its domestic sales, marketing and investor relations teams across the group will see a top distribution operative take on a wider role. As a result of the integration of teams, Camelia Seric, who was head of distribution ...

iExtend hires national BDM

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
iExtend has expanded its distribution team by appointing a national business development specialist, hiring from Resolution Life. In the newly created role, David Sutjipto will work closely with financial advisers to enhance the client experience and ...

Lazard names the local head of retail sales

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
Lazard Asset Management has confirmed that after eight years leading the Australian retail sales team, Benjamin Granbery has left the firm. "We would like to thank him for his significant contribution to Lazard Asset Management," said Lazard AM's ...

Vanguard partners to launch core-satellite portfolios for advisers

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
Financial advisers will be able to access the combination of Vanguard's expertise in global index portfolio construction and Lonsec Investment Solutions investment management experience through a new core-satellite model portfolio offering. The Vanguard ...

Carbon tax a 'missed opportunity': Debelle

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
Funds SA chair Guy Debelle has told the IGCC Summit 2025 that numerous governments not going ahead with a carbon tax was a "missed opportunity". "The carbon tax wouldn't have been a bad thing to have done, but we lost a few Prime Ministers on the ...

MLC Expand targets time savings with new AI capabilities

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
MLC's super and retirement platform, MLC Expand, is rolling out a slew of artificial intelligence (AI) automation tools that it says could save advice practices hundreds of hours per month. Over the coming months, MLC Expand is launching automation ...

Macquarie sells data centres in landmark deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... November 2024 when it offloaded AirTrunk. That sale was valued at $24 billion (US$16bn). Head of Macquarie Asset Management Ben Way said the transaction underscores the institution's ability to identify key thematics early and opportunities that create ...