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Sequoia expects earnings hit from Shield, First Guardian

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
... Shield and First Guardian but did not detail how much. The impairment is expected to include a provision for potential claims under the insurance excess payable under its professional indemnity insurance. It will also include impairment of intangible ...

TAL enhances TPD offering, support for self-employed customers

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
... conditions where recovery outcomes can vary significantly. Customers will also receive 20% of their sum insured each year for claims involving these conditions, provided they continue to meet the TPD criteria at annual review. TAL said the offering will ...

FEATURE: Private credit | At the precipice

GLENDA KORPORAAL  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... permits such factoring," he says. Most of the true lending to middle market companies, he says, sees the lenders having first claims on the assets ahead of other sources of finance. He says lending to mid-market private companies compares well with the ...

Super moves: AustralianSuper, UniSuper, Team Super, CFS, TAL

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... markets and development team. Perkins previously worked in Australia's superannuation sector at Hostplus, dealing with claims for health insurance brokers at the fund's Melbourne office. "It's an extremely exciting time to be joining the ...

Mulino looks to reform CSLR

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... be forced to pay the levy, wealthier Australians with SMSFs will not be levied in 2025-26, despite about 80% of existing claims on the CSLR scheme relating to advice in that sector." The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) chief executive Sarah ...

Australian businesses most worried about possible recession: Survey

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
... key concern in the survey is both alarming and unsurprising given some of the trends we have been witnessing in our own claims data and analysis. "This issue highlights the importance of resilience and prevention as a continued area of focus for our ...

The shifting role of custodians in the financial ecosystem: ACSA

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025
... securities. It forecasts that custodians will play a significant role in building safe, scalable infrastructure. Further, it claims 'custodian' is considered an outdated and traditional term. Research showed that more providers now describe themselves ...

Shield proposes to liquidate equities to pay investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
... investors of the SMF can recover their investments in the form of distributions or other payments from the SMF or via legal claims against Keystone as creditors seeking compensation for any losses that investors have suffered because of the way that ...

SQM vows to 'respectfully' defend ASIC case

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2025
... before providing ratings of 3.75 stars for various classes of Shield on separate occasions between 2021 and 2022. It also claims SQM misrepresented that it had a reasonable basis for the 'favourable' rating awarded, and that its reports did not "accurately ...

Interprac sued over Shield, First Guardian failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... however Venture Egg did not comply with the requirements and Interprac did not investigate or sanction Venture Egg, ASIC claims. The regulator said Interprac managing director and responsible manager Garry Crole apparently acknowledged there was issues ...