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AMP, Insignia, Bendigo products fail super performance test

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
... consecutive fail against Insignia's MLC Wholesale Horizon 2 Income Portfolio, which sits on the Expand Essential Super and Extra Super Menu and is already closed to new members. Insignia Financial said in a statement: "Of our 110 master trust and ...

Government scraps inquiry into advice firm failures, Dixon Advisory

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
The government has dumped the inquiry into wealth management companies that would have dissected the collapse of firms like Dixon Advisory and the impact on the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR). In September 2024, the government referred the ...

Montgomery to distribute digital assets fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
Montgomery Investment Management is partnering with Digital Asset Funds Management (DAFM) to distribute the latter's fund to wholesale investors. DAFM is a Sydney-based investment boutique and runs the Digital Income Fund. The strategy offers two investment ...

Former adviser back in Australia to face theft charges

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2025
A former financial adviser accused of stealing millions from clients will finally face court after being extradited back to Australia from New Zealand. Marion Pearson allegedly stole $4.1 million from 13 clients between January 2009 and October 2013. ...

Anti-hawking exemption for advisers a 'silly carve out': SCA

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
... financial year tends to be a trigger for people to check their super fund's performance and has since urged consumers to be extra cautious.

Special feature: Hunting for value

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
Markets have all but recovered from when 'Liberation Day' threatened a meltdown, and asset classes of all flavours are pushing to new highs. But with valuations ahead of fundamentals amid uncertainty, fixed income is in focus as investors look ...

WAM eyes Platinum LIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
Wilson Asset Management (WAM) is making a play to be the investment manager of a Platinum Asset Management listed investment company, offering a non-binding, indicative proposal. WAM is proposing to take over the investment management function of ASX-listed ...

Some Australians being taxed more on super than pay: SMC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... middle and low-income retirees in the middle wealth group have been the biggest beneficiaries of compulsory super, with an extra $11,388 to spend each year. The SMC analysis also found without compulsory super, half a million more Australians would rely ...

Norway sovereign wealth fund divests 11 Israeli companies, cuts mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
Norway's US$2 trillion sovereign wealth fund has severed ties with 11 Israeli companies and is in the process of terminating mandates with external managers based in Israel. The sovereign wealth fund's manager, Norges Bank Investment Management ...

PC recommends switch to digital financial reporting

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2025
An interim report from the Productivity Commission (PC) has recommended Australian companies switch to digital financial reporting to allow for data to be better extracted. The report looked at how Australia can better harness the data contained in ...