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MSC Group awarded mandates for natural resources strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2026
MSC Group will provide administration capability and trusteeship for a natural resources strategy focusing on the energy sector and select commodities. MSC Trustees will provide trusteeship, while MSC Abacus will provide fund administration and registry ...

Schroders nabs Lazard's Australian portfolio manager

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2026
Aaron Binsted will join Schroders Australia in early November as a portfolio manager and analyst after 24 years at Lazard Asset Management. Binsted co-led Lazard's Australian equities strategies for the last 15 years. He will join Schroders' ...

ASFA welcomes Rest executive to C-suite role

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2026
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has named a new C-suite appointment, set to join on September 21 from Rest to strengthen its policy implementation initiative. Sarah O'Brien has been named the chief practice officer at ASFA ...

Actuaries Institute launches AI risk management guide

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2026
Actuaries Institute and UTS Human Technology Institute (HTI) have partnered to launch a practical risk management guide to help financial services firms manage artificial intelligence (AI) risks. With rapid AI adoption, the Institutes note governance ...

Equity Trustees super exit sparks Hejaz Islamic Super and Pension closure

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2026
Hejaz's Islamic Super and Pension products will be terminated as a fallout from Equity Trustees ditching the superannuation trustee business. The latter, however, says otherwise. Hejaz Islamic Super had 2600 members and more than $98 million in ...

FEATURE | Managed accounts | Industrialising advice

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2026
Consider a situation where a financial adviser believes an investment is no longer suitable for their clients. Perhaps a fund manager is underperforming or a stock held directly by clients needs to be sold. In the past, advisers would often have to ...

Vanguard to acquire custodian Altruist

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2026
Vanguard will acquire custodian and investment platform Altruist in a bid to expand into the American independent financial adviser market. The two parties entered into a definitive agreement, the financial terms of which were not disclosed. Outlets ...

ASIC, APRA urge finance sector to demonstrate AI threat response

VINNY VUCAGO  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2026
ASIC and APRA have called on financial services firms to move beyond awareness of frontier artificial intelligence (AI) risks and demonstrate they can respond to threats unfolding at unprecedented speed. The regulators' warning follows nine industry ...

FEATURE | Group insurance | Dusk to dawn

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2026
Australia is in the grips of an unprecedented mental health crisis. It joins a league of other, what anthropologist Joseph Henrich coins as "Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic" or "WEIRD" countries, grappling with the perfect storm ...

Pacific Current eyes return to active management

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2026
Pacific Current is mulling a return to active management, two years after it stepped back from active investing and externalised management of its portfolio. The move follows a year of asset sales that left the firm debt-free and holding $158 million ...