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Touchstone closes flagship fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
Touchstone Asset Management has closed its flagship Australian equity fund nearly a decade after it launched. The Touchstone Index Unaware Fund shuttered in May, having been in operation since 4 April 2016. The fund aimed to outperform the return of ...

Retirement confidence highest since 2020: SSGA

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
Despite persisting cost-of-living pressures, economic uncertainty, and heightened retirement costs, retirement confidence has increased from 24% in 2023 to 33% in 2025. Australia now sits just behind the US (34%) as one of the most optimistic countries ...

Iress completes sale of super business

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
... will continue to provide certain services for up to 18 months in the transition of ownership, and highlighted there is no change to its FY25 guidance from the divestment. Iress Group chief executive and managing director Marcus Price said the offloading ...

Regal Partners charts US expansion

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
Regal Partners is planning a push into North America, as it also prepares to launch a multi-strategy income fund locally. Providing an update at the company's annual general meeting yesterday, Regal Partners chief executive Brendan O'Connor spoke of ...

Life insurers report another profitable quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
The life insurance industry appears to have moved past its loss-making years, reporting a $332 million profit at the end of March, new APRA figures show. About $5.7 billion was generated in insurance revenue, marking a 3% rise from the December 2024 ...

GAM nabs Janus Henderson equities team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... backdrop is shifting decisively in Europe's favour. "For decades, cheap valuations alone weren't enough to catalyse change in Europe. But that's no longer the case. Geopolitical realignment sparked, in part, by the return of Donald Trump ...

Former TCorp exec sets up consultancy

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... concerns not merely the mechanics of uplifting an investment model but also the often-significant challenges related to change management and cultural alignment.," he explained. He was most recently manager of portfolio construction at TCorp and spent ...

Aware Super beefs up sustainability team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
High-profile ethics and impact manager Desiree Lucchese has joined Aware Super as the reporting manager for climate change and sustainability. In her new role, Lucchese will blend technical expertise with change management to serve as a liaison across ...

Greenwashing remains an enforcement priority: ASIC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... reporting. Last year, the law mandating climate reporting disclosures was passed. O'Rourke called it a once-in-a-generation change to financial reporting and disclosure standards in Australia. "What they mean for reporting entities is very significant... ...

New SMSF trustees drive financial advice uptake

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2025
Trustees of newly established self-managed super funds (SMSFs) are behind a surge in the uptake of financial advice, according to a Vanguard/Investment Trends SMSF report. The report, while showing that adviser influence is growing in new SMSF set-ups ...