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US pension funds move against James Hardie chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2025
... calling for Lloyd to be removed as chair at the AGM on Thursday morning. Earlier this month Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) also recommend a vote against the four James Hardie directors up for election, including Lloyd. ISS said it had "material ...

Netwealth invokes Part 23 of SIS Act in First Guardian response

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2025
... failure. This morning, the listed platform and superannuation provider said it had applied to minister for financial services Daniel Mulino for financial assistance under Part 23 of the SIS Act on October 24. Part 23 of the SIS Act enables regulated ...

FEATURE: Fund admin | Tight Ship

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... core system and registry platform, DLTA, effectively sits on top of DLT as provided by R3, which caters to financial services firms. Back offices across the world powering any organisation and industry are riddled with multiple and disparate systems ...

Regal Partners makes two senior hires

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... She joined the Melbourne-based investment house in early 2022, bringing more than 14 years of experience in financial services across Australia and New Zealand. Prior to Merrick, Seric spent a decade at Bennelong Funds Management, where as distribution ...

JANA bolsters senior team with three key appointments

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... lead the investment direction of JANA's infrastructure research capability, overseeing due diligence and advisory services on infrastructure portfolios for the firm's clients and managed investment trusts. Meanwhile, McAvoy (pictured) has been ...

ASIC bans adviser attached to UGC, MWL

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
ASIC has banned Melbourne-based financial adviser Jovan Videkanic from providing financial services, controlling an entity that carries on a financial services business or performing any function involved in the carrying on of a financial services business ...

MA Financial sees record gross inflows

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... taken up by Scentre Group. However, it noted that this will have an immaterial impact on its earnings as the contracted services deliver a fee margin significantly lower than for the other assets managed by it. "Given the strong momentum, the Group continues ...

Feature: Group insurance | Cold comfort

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... been at their most vulnerable, super funds have often made matters worse. Such extensive delays and failure of member services have called into question whether the government should look to be more prescriptive in terms of timeframes for payment. As ...

Adviser banned after $11.3m loss

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... and that the Quant Fund had operated for longer than it had. "Northcott failed to understand the Australian financial services licensing and compliance regime and is not adequately trained, or is not competent, to provide one or more financial services ...

ASIC slaps MWL adviser with ban over Shield involvement

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... to invest their superannuation into the Shield Master Fund while he was an authorised representative of MWL Financial Services. Spooner, also a member of MWL's investment committee, was authorised by the firm on 24 May 2021. His ban was effective 25 ...