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Shield proposes to liquidate equities to pay investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
The Shield Master Fund (SMF) is expected to make a distribution to victims by selling a large portion of its listed equities portfolio, according to liquidators Alvarez & Marsal. Keystone Asset Management, which is the responsible entity for the Shield ...

ASIC strengthens codes of conduct guidance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
... additional benefits to consumers and clarify what needs to be done from the perspective of a particular industry, practice or product to comply with legislation. There are three types of codes an industry can adopt: voluntary codes developed by the industry ...

Challenger to take on TelstraSuper pension product

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2025
... following a decision to close its RetireAccess Lifetime Pension. The super fund has notified members that a review of its product suite as part of its merger plans with Aware Super resulted in a decision to not carry the product across to the merged ...

State Super integrates investments with Frontier Advisors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025
State Super and Frontier Advisors have completed their new partnership, with State Super's investment and operations specialists, led by chief investment officer Charles Wu, moving across to Frontier Advisors. As announced in October this year, State ...

Advisers acquired 300k new clients in 2025: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025
The number of new clients financial advisers acquired amounted to 300,000 in 2025, bucking the downward trend in recent years, an Investment Trends report shows. The 2025 Financial Advice Report found that after several years of decline in client acquisition ...

Centuria grows agriculture portfolio to $1.3bn with acquisition

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025
Centuria Capital Group has acquired agriculture real estate manager Arrow Funds Management, increasing its agriculture assets under management (AUM) to $1.3 billion. Centuria will take over Arrow's agricultural real estate fund, Arrow Primary Infrastructure ...

Former ASIC supervisor joins crypto platform as operating chief

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025
... named chief operating officer, effective today, joining from CommSec where he was most recently the executive manager, product for nearly four years. At CommSec, he led the strategy, performance and risk governance of the derivatives and margin lending ...

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 ...

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 ...