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Capital Haus acquires Adelaide advice firm, FUM to exceed $1bn

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025
Capital Haus has acquired Adelaide's advice business Baker Young, with the firm to retain its brand and staff. Baker Young founders Alan Young and David Baker will remain in active advisory roles, as Capital Haus will also move its existing client to ...

ASIC suspends Newcastle advice firm's AFSL over missing key person

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
ASIC has suspended the AFSL of Focused Financial Advice (FFA) until December 19, which has operated for more than two years without a key person. FFA was established in 2003 and provides financial services around superannuation, life insurance, retirement ...

Financially savvy Australians can add $1.2tn to wealth: Research

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
New research has found that if all Australians were to reach a level of advanced financial capability, it could uplift aggregate household wealth by $1.2 trillion, equal to $122,950 per household. The Big Lift report by Deloitte in collaboration with ...

Morningstar widens private credit coverage, kicks off with Metrics

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
Morningstar will kick start ratings coverage of Australian private credit and private equity funds from next year, picking Metrics Credit Partners for its first assessment. The research house said that while the private credit ratings will be available ...

AI to maximise returns for super members: Report

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
The Thinking Ahead Institute (TAI) released a global DC peer study that revealed the current outdated design of these pension funds are preventing younger members from receiving maximised returns. TAI co-founder Roger Urwin supported the report's findings ...

Brookfield, GIC chase $4bn acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
Brookfield and GIC Investments have made a $4 billion bid for National Storage REIT (NSR). NSR confirmed it has received a proposal from Brookfield and GIC to acquire 100% to the REIT for $2.86 cash per stapled security. The proposal is subject to a ...

ASIC invites feedback on disclosure requirements

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
ASIC is inviting the superannuation and investment management sectors to have their say on changes to stamp duty and portfolio holdings disclosure requirements. The request follows a targeted review of superannuation investment disclosure requirements ...

FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
In the book The Lucky Country, the late author Donald Horne provides a piercing assessment of Australia in 1964, stating that its prosperity is derived from good fortune rather than industriousness or ambition. He ruminated about the future challenges ...

AustralianSuper axes mid risk role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
AustralianSuper has nixed several executive roles in its private markets team as it shifts towards external managers. The cuts are focused on the fund's mid risk business, which invests in infrastructure, property and private credit. Jessica Melville's ...

DASH reshapes leadership team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
DASH Technology Group has refreshed its senior leadership team appointing a new chief risk officer and chief operating officer ahead of its next growth spurt. The structural shift sees Terri Ho take on the role of chief risk officer, shifting from head ...