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Feature: Digital advice | Sleeping giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
... SoA to implementation time, because that's where we find that we have a lot of double handling. "That's where our risk sits predominantly. We find that there's a lot of time in following up our members or clients," Howie says. Currently ...

Australia, UK regulators exchange insights

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
The UK and Australia have exchanged information on their respective approaches to financial markets, pension structures, and digital asset advancement at the inaugural UK-Australia Joint Financial Regulatory Forum. The virtual forum was chaired by director ...

Equip Super appoints chief risk officer

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
Equip Super has promoted Michelle Cheong to chief risk officer, effective October 6. Cheong brings nearly two decades of experience in the superannuation and financial services industry. Starting her career at Ernst & Young, Cheong moved into senior ...

Guardians appoints new head of risk

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
... New Zealand Superannuation, manager of the New Zealand Superannuation Fund, has announced Maaike van Tol as the new head of risk. Van Tol will begin her new position on September 29, after over a year with the Guardians' asset allocation team. In her ...

Crypto providers to hold AFSL under proposed laws

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
... can be penalised upwards of $16.5 million or 10% of annual turnover for breaching said obligations. However, smaller, low-risk platforms with less than $5000 per customer and/or facilitating less than $10 million in transactions per year will be exempted ...

La Trobe has two of three stop orders lifted

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
... its Target Market Determinations (TMDs) and introduced customer questionnaires. When asked how La Trobe was determining the risk profiles of investors prior to the introduction of the questionnaires, La Trobe chief investment officer Chris Paton told ...

Retirees should put 80% of balance into annuities: Grattan

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
... income for life. Usually retirees are steered to account-based pensions which require them to manage spending to avoid the risk of outliving their savings. "Half of those using an account-based pension draw their super at the legislated minimum rates ...

RBA says ASX has 'considerable work to do'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
... central bank's expectations for an operator of critical market infrastructure. The RBA pointed to recent shortcomings in risk management - particularly the December 2024 CHESS batch settlement incident - which it said highlighted that ASX must "make ...

SMC calls for simplified retirement system

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2025
... part of retirement income for most Australians; understand that longevity products designed to help with managing longevity risk in retirement aren't right for everyone; and allow trustees to design flexible retirement pathways for people with different ...

More than 75% of asset owners wary of trade disputes

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2025
... the asset owners surveyed, four in 10 reported reducing or planning to reduce their allocation to the US due to currency risk and policy uncertainty. Respondents from the APAC region were among the largest group wary of regulatory uncertainty in the ...