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APRA-regulated funds should not pay CSLR special levy: SMC

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025
... recovery. The SMC also suggested drawing on unclaimed money held by the ATO as a short-term funding source. "It's crucial to close the door to stop consumer harms like these in the first place. Prevention is always better than clean up," SMC chief executive ...

Assembly Funds Management reopens second retail fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2025
Over a year since the second close of the fund, the Lowy family-backed Assembly Funds Management (AFM) has once again reopened the Australian Diversified Property Fund 2 (ADPF2), with 65% now invested across the living, retail and office sectors. The ...

Super moves: ART, AustralianSuper, Rest, Unisuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... commercial analyst at both Rio Tinto and Deloitte earlier in his career. Murphy's relocation to the Middle East comes close on the heels of the recent move by the Future Fund's former investment chief, Ben Samild, to the Mubadala-owned Abu Dhabi ...

Sequoia boasts of 'good governance' despite ASIC action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
Sequoia Financial Group's chair has told shareholders that "good governance remains central" to how it operates and confirmed it is in talks with Netwealth and Macquarie over their decision to bar InterPrac advisers. Addressing its annual general ...

FAAA launches digital client identification tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) will launch a digital client identification tool to assist advisers identify and verify their clients for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) purposes. FAAA SafeID, an end-to-end ...

Delaying reforms to YFYS test, RG97 costing members: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
Retirees may be as much as $20,000 worse off at retirement due to the Your Future, Your Super performance test and RG97, a new report suggests. It could also be costing the country up to 140,000 jobs, the Australian Investment Council and Mandala say. ...

Japanese insurer acquires stake in Barings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2025
... MSI chief executive Shinichiro Funabiki said. "We are confident that supporting Barings' sustainable, long-term growth in close collaboration with MassMutual will create lasting value for all three firms." Barings will remain an independent subsidiary ...

RBA says it can 'afford to be patient' on rate decisions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2025
... board said it remains "cautious and data dependent" as the end of the year approaches. "Members committed to continue paying close attention to developments in the global economy and financial markets, trends in domestic demand, and the outlook for inflation ...

Global resilience is a key systemic risk: HESTA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2025
... through asset managers are critical, as are obviously networks and organisations," she said. "We are the ones that are so close to the beneficiaries. We are the ones connected to the members of our funds, but ultimately we are the ones who set the purpose ...

AMP announces senior hire for North

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2025
... continues to be recognised by advisers, with net cashflows up over 60% on previous corresponding period and AUM reaching close to $87 billion," AMP chief executive Alexis George said at the time.