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Super funds test cybersecurity resilience

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
Still reeling from the coordinated cyberattack in April, superannuation funds will test their cybersecurity resilience and see what lessons they have learned under a drill provided by the Gateway Network Governance Body (GNGB). Taking place on Thursday ...

AMP, Insignia, Bendigo products fail super performance test

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
AMP, Insignia Financial and Bendigo SmartStart are the only superannuation fund providers whose platform trustee-directed products (TDP) failed APRA's latest performance test. Only seven out of the 563 products that APRA tested failed in its latest ...

APRA sets higher cybersecurity expectations for trustees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
Trustees' cyber-resilience is riding high on APRA's enforcement agenda over the next four years, but in the short term the regulator warned it will escalate action where necessary if they cannot prove to have basic measures in place. The prudential ...

Insignia Financial back in the black

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
After reporting a $185 million loss last year, Insignia Financial has clawed its way back to a $16.1 million profit in FY25. Insignia Financial has undergone an extensive cost optimisation program in recent years, which included transitioning its master ...

Insignia offloads IOOF Alliances to Entireti

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
Entireti has acquired IOOF Alliances, a provider of support services for AFSLs, from Insignia Financial for an undisclosed sum. IOOF Alliances will merge with Jigsaw Advice Solutions to form Entireti Alliances. About 70 self-licensed advisory firms ...

InterPrac hit with $22m in AFCA complaints

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
Sequoia Financial Group's InterPrac Financial Planning is facing $22 million worth of complaints lodged with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) for its advisers' role in the collapse of the Shield Master Fund and First Guardian ...

HUB24 recruits Vanguard sales manager

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
HUB24 has appointed a leader to its platform growth team, who will be responsible for building industry relationships once he takes the reins on September 2. Matt Willis has been appointed to the newly created role of executive general manager, platform ...

MLC AM reduces MultiSeries management fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025
MLC Asset Management reduced its management fees across its four MultiSeries portfolios, starting on June 1. For MLC MultiSeries 30 management fees reduced from 0.40% to 0.32% p.a. For MLC MultiSeries 50 and MLC MultiSeries 70, fees went from 0.45% ...

One third of advisers use 'Big 3' platforms: Rainmaker

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
FirstChoice, BT Panorama and Insignia Financial's Expand are the most widely used platforms among financial advisers, according to Rainmaker Information, which shows that one third of the industry rely on the 'Big 3'. Colonial First States ...

Insignia accepts CC Capital bid

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2025
Insignia Financial has entered into a Scheme Implementation Deed (SID) to be acquired by New York-based CC Capital Partners for a value of $3.3 billion. CC Capital has agreed to acquire all the issued shares in Insignia for a cash consideration of $4.80 ...