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APRA flags growing trustee complacency on retirement strategies

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
... meeting baseline expectations and those who have embraced retirement as a strategic and competitive imperative. ASIC, this week, also slammed superannuation trustees for poor retirement communications practices, finding that many funds are missing opportunities ...

Bravura appoints new chair, deputy chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
Bravura Solutions appointed a new chair and deputy chair at the end of its annual general meeting this week. Russell Baskerville has taken over as chair while Damien Leonard was named deputy chair. Based in Perth, Baskerville is the founder and managing ...

Fidante partner hires from WTW

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... role as the London-based asset manager moves to expand in Australia following its partnership with Fidante. Fidante this week acquired a minority stake in Fulcrum and secured exclusive distribution rights across Australia, New Zealand and Asia. This ...

Family trusts safe from reform for now: Mulino

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... not currently looking at reforming the tax treatment of family trusts. Appearing on Sky News this morning to discuss this week's changes to Division 296, Mulino was asked whether the government will now turn its attention to family trusts. In response ...

MLC Expand targets time savings with new AI capabilities

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... more Australians benefit from the power of quality financial advice." Speaking at the Citi Investment Conference 2025 this week, AMP group executive, platforms Edwina Maloney and HUB24 chief executive Andrew Alcock highlighted the increasingly important ...

Platinum LIC turns down WAM bid

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
... indicative proposal from L1 Capital to replace Platinum as investment manager. At the extraordinary general meeting (EGM) this week, about 65% of PMC shareholders rejected the motion to appoint the trio as directors and ultimately disapproved WAM's aim ...

Perpetual dumps 23m Myer shares

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
Perpetual, one of Myer's largest shareholders, sold around 23 million shares after the retailer's poor results this week. Myer's share price fell as much as 30% after announcing its full year results on Tuesday. The embattled retailer reported a fall ...

La Trobe has two of three stop orders lifted

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
... Fund. In addition, La Trobe Direct - the online investment platform - is back online after it was shut down earlier this week. However, stop orders remain in place for the US Private Credit Fund (USPC Fund). As part of the process, La Trobe updated its ...

Inflation rises 3% in August

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2025
... at the board meeting in early November." This comes after RBA governor Michele Bullock told a parliamentary inquiry this week that the Australian economy was "in a very good position", pointing to inflation being within the board's target 2-3% range. ...

Shield collapse brings wholesale governance to the forefront

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2025
... Rahmani, chief executive and managing director of Magellan, told the Berkshire Global Advisors M&A Symposium in Sydney this week that she is hearing a lot of talk about governance among the adviser community amid the fallout of the two failed schemes. ...