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CALI launches review of Life Code

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
The Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI) has appointed Peter Kell to lead an independent review of the Life Insurance Code of Practice (Life Code). The review will begin on 1 October 2025. The Life Code sets enforceable standards life insurers ...

Rest boosts impact, sustainability investments

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
Rest has handed $232 million to specialist climate investment firm Wollemi Capital, which will now launch its first managed vehicle. The invested capital comes from the superannuation fund's Growth Alternative strategy. Rest said the investment ...

Bennelong boutique shuts up shop

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
Just two months on from shuttering its flagship fund, Touchstone Asset Management has closed its doors. As first reported by Financial Standard, the boutique wound up the Touchstone Index Unaware Fund in May. This was largely due to the low funds under ...

T. Rowe Price brings research equity strategy down under

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
The $2.6 trillion asset manager has launched its actively managed Global Structured Research Equity Strategy in Australia, complementing its existing suite of products. The fund leverages T. Rowe Price's global research platform to provide investors ...

Special feature: Shaping private markets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
Custodians are stepping up as regulators target super funds' $3.5 trillion private asset rush. Australia's super funds face mounting scrutiny over their rapid shift into private markets, as concerns grow about transparency, valuations and liquidity ...

HUB24, Netwealth projected to overtake Insignia: Morningstar

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
Morningstar has revised its forecasts for HUB24 and Netwealth, with continued strong performance from the pair pushing their valuations higher. Total shareholder returns for HUB24 and Netwealth since the start of the year to 24 July 2025 were around ...

Fitzpatricks advice GM resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
Fitzpatricks Financial Group has rejigged the role of its chief executive following the general manager for advice's decision to step down from the private wealth subsidiary. Fitzpatricks Advice Partners' general manager of advice Jasia Fabig has resigned ...

Brighter Super awards $50m mandate

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025
A new $50 million mandate will see Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) invest Brighter Super members' retirement savings back into the state's economy through high-growth, innovative businesses. The mandate will invest in businesses delivering strong ...

Acenda Group names finance, risk leads

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025
Acenda Group, which will result in the merger of Acenda and Resolution Life Australasia before the end of the year, has appointed its chief financial officer and chief risk officer. Karen Malzard has been named group chief risk officer. For the last ...

Macquarie suffers first strike on pay package

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
... excess of $24 million in FY25. This includes a fixed remuneration of $1.5 million and $15.8 million of retained profit share. Ben Way, the head of Macquarie Asset Management (MAM), would be compensated $12.7 million in total. The head of Macquarie Capital ...