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Interprac sued over Shield, First Guardian failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... advice, putting their retirement savings at significant risk. At 10.20am, following ASIC's announcement, Sequoia Financial Group - the parent company of Interprac - entered a trading halt. Together, Interpac representatives Venture Egg and Rhys Reilly ...

Super performance test, DBFO reforms coming: Government

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2025
... investment in key areas like housing and the energy transformation." Chalmers said Treasury has set up a technical working group which is currently working on what changes may be needed and how to enact them. "That consultation will be really targeted ...

HUB24, TAL to launch retirement income product

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2025
... only withdrawing the legislated minimum pension amount to manage their longevity risk," he said. TAL chief executive for group life and retirement Jenny Oliver said: "We believe lifetime income solutions can play a fundamental role in helping more Australians ...

MBS Insurance partners with Orbital Life

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2025
Risk insurance specialist MBS Insurance (MBS) has acquired a minority interest in boutique risk advisory firm Orbital Life. The partnership will enhance MBS's capacity to provide professional advice and make quality insurance advice more accessible ...

Half of super investments now offshore: NAB

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2025
... the challenges of a volatile global environment, focused on diversification, liquidity, and digital transformation. NAB group executive, corporate and institutional banking Cathryn Carver said: "The shift to more than 50% international allocation reflects ...

Industry bodies offer Payday Super resources

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2025
Two industry bodies have launched resources to help superannuation funds comply with the looming Payday Super legislation, as the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) warns employers to be ready by 1 July 2026. The Association of Superannuation Funds of ...

Evidentia acquires practice management firm

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2025
Managed accounts firm Evidentia Group will acquire practice management advisory firm Encore Advisory Group. The partnership will deepen Evidentia's business consulting capabilities, it said. Encore has over 20 years of experience in supporting financial ...

ASX names chief compliance officer

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2025
... recently, she was a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright after a five-year stint at APRA where she led the legal and enforcement group. Earlier in her career, she was general counsel, Australian wealth management and bank legal at AMP, where she stayed for ...

Vale Ken Atchison

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2025
... director for 21 years until April 2022. The year prior, Wattle Partners acquired Atchison Consultants. He stayed on with the group while Wattle Partners directors Jamie Nemtsas and Drew Meredith became non-executive directors of Atchison. Wattle Partners ...

TAL to provide mental healthcare program via partnership

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2025
... clinical services with digital psychosocial support to ensure a comprehensive continuum of care, TAL added. Commenting, TAL group chief executive and managing director Fiona Macgregor said mental ill-health is a growing concern and the partnership will ...