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ASIC targets potential vertical integration in managed accounts

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
Stopping short of calling it vertically integrated, ASIC warns it aims to uncover any conflicts of interests in the managed accounts sector particularly as more AFSLs build in-house products. ASIC commissioner Alan Kirkland said the managed accounts ...

ART names new chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
... phase of ART's development." Rowell has been an independent director of ART since April 2024 and is currently chair of the risk committee. Rowell previously held senior roles with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority for over 20 years, including ...

Former Statewide Super executives acquitted

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... fund and then charged with dishonesty offences have been acquitted. In January 2020, Statewide Super terminated its chief risk officer Kieran Netting and chief financial and operating officer Grant Eastwood for alleged breaches of internal controls. ...

iExtend hires national BDM

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... financial advisers to enhance the client experience and ensure policy owners understand their options when life insurance is at risk of lapsing or cancellation. Sutjipto will provide direct engagement, training and strategic support, equipping advisers ...

Rest Super team defects to Channel Capital

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... independent subsidiary, helping institutional investors, family offices, and asset managers manage operational complexity, reduce risk, and make more confident investment decisions through independent expert analysis and advice. Group managing director ...

Vanguard partners to launch core-satellite portfolios for advisers

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... of portfolio options empowers advisers to confidently deliver active-passive solutions aligned to client preferences and risk profiles, while benefitting from the practice efficiencies of a separately managed account structure." Evidentia Group chief ...

BUSSQ streamlines product offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... feel empowered when it comes to their future and having the option to tailor their investment options according to their risk appetite is important, as well as easily choosing the best insurance cover for them. People are becoming more engaged with their ...

Carbon tax a 'missed opportunity': Debelle

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
Funds SA chair Guy Debelle has told the IGCC Summit 2025 that numerous governments not going ahead with a carbon tax was a "missed opportunity". "The carbon tax wouldn't have been a bad thing to have done, but we lost a few Prime Ministers on the ...

Feature: Compliance | Passing the buck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... the adviser will ask for the research report, and the same goes for the platforms and the trustees," Gosselin says. "The risk is that they only look at the first two or three pages the research and the stamp on it that says 'recommended' or 'highly ...

APRA lifts final Westpac capital add-on

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
APRA has lifted Westpac's remaining $500 million capital add-on after the bank completed its multi-year risk transformation program spurred by several breaches and misconduct. APRA slapped the first $500 million capital add-on in July 2019 as a ...