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Treasury proposes advice education standard reforms

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2026
... would streamline the total learning outcomes or topics from 223 to 20 across the four core subjects. The current rules mandate advisers to earn an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Level 7 or higher, offered by a Tertiary Education Quality and ...

Prime Super picks new asset consultant

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2026
... asset consultant on June 1. PATRIZIA had served as the fund's asset consultant for more than a decade, having taken on the mandate when it acquired Whitehelm Capital in 2021. The $8.5 billion super fund put the contract to tender and said Frontier emerged ...

National Reconstruction Fund makes $200m investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2026
... businesses need to compete and win in the emerging digital economy. The NRFC added the investment delivers on key parts of its mandate, delivering increased national resilience in the face of growing global uncertainty and creating high quality jobs. ...

Major super reforms cost members $670m in death benefits: ASFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2026
The Protecting Your Super Package (PYS) and the Putting Members' Interests First (PMIF) reforms result in $670 million in foregone death benefits each year, new research from the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) shows. Seven ...

Treasury proposes options to block victim-survivors' super going to perpetrators

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026
... violent towards the deceased member. This option would allow the fund to exercise this power at its own discretion or mandate the fund set aside the person as an eligible beneficiary. The third and final option proposed would provide a super fund with ...

Pengana awards investment mandate to Antipodes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026
... screened global equities listed on major international exchanges, and there will be no change to PIA's investment mandate or ASX listing. Pengana said the transition will significantly improve its investment management proposition and aligns with ...

Former Tyndall managers to run Bell's first Aussie equities strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026
... diversified investment management firm." Tyndall Asset Management, which was 50% owned by Yarra Group, made the decision after a mandate loss in December. A total of seven staff members were affected.

AFM, PGIM announce exit from Qld retirement village developer

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
Having first invested over $70 million in retirement village operator Aura in 2024, both Assembly Funds Management (AFM) and PGIM have agreed an early exit from their positions. AFM invested in Aura via its Real Estate Private Equity series and will ...

Equity Trustees lands new mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
Equity Trustees (EQT) has been appointed Responsible Entity for the new River Capital High Conviction Fund. The fund, available to institutional and wholesale investors directly, and to retail investors via platforms, provides access to a focused portfolio ...

GBST aims to capitalise on innovation with new hire

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
... enterprise transformation. Most recently, he was the generative AI lead at Woolworths Group for more than four years. His mandate spans both internal and client-facing initiatives, with a dual focus on enhancing how GBST teams operate and embedding AI ...