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Regulators note advances in life insurers' practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... disclosure and marketing materials, though has since noted progress. The regulators said life companies need to strengthen their risk management and compliance assurance around re-rating practices, which it noted led them to revisiting past premium increases ...

Lower interest rates conducive for bigger risk appetite, small caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... fall, small caps are poised to reap from the current macroeconomic backdrop and investors increasing their appetite for more risk, a fund manager says. Janus Henderson portfolio manager Nick Sheridan predicts the tide is turning for small cap stocks ...

ECB drops interest rates by 0.25%

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... investment and consumption. A deterioration in financial market sentiment could lead to tighter financing conditions and greater risk aversion and make firms and households less willing to invest and consume," the Governing Council said. Furthermore ...

Up to two million Aussies could face super tax: FSC

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
New modelling from the Financial Services Council (FSC) shows that up to 1.8 million Australians currently in the workforce could be impacted by the proposed superannuation tax under one of the four scenarios. The four scenarios consist of: $3 million ...

HESTA moves risk chief to advisory role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
HESTA chief risk officer Andrew Major has moved into a newly created advisory role to work with the fund's investment leadership on strategy. The transition represents a natural evolution for Major, who before joining HESTA's risk division in ...

Super moves: TCorp, ESSSuper, Funds SA, Team Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
... multinational business structures and cross-border tax compliance. Meanwhile, ESSSuper has appointed Adam Swanwick as head of risk and compliance to enhance its governance capabilities. Swanwick, previously a senior risk and compliance partner at TelstraSuper ...

Private credit market has lenders sweating

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
... Morningstar said. "However, investors must weigh these benefits against the challenges of liquidity constraints, borrower default risk, and transparency issues."

Netwealth chair to retire, successor appointed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
... including as chair for Asia Pacific and Oceania at Ernst & Young (EY), member of the EY Global Governance Council and Global Risk Executive Committee, and later as a non-executive director. Wachtel is currently deputy chair and a non-executive director ...

Schroders expands active ETF suite

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
... opportunities and challenges. Throughout this, our primary goal has been to embed stability for portfolios through strict risk management." "The strategy has demonstrated strong long-term performance, consistently outperforming its benchmark, the MSCI ...

Super needs customised, personalised approach: FSC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
... solve for retirement, in the way that we're going to have to," he said. "That is in part driven by post-Royal Commission risk appetites and the regulatory environment we're in. It is also driven by the fact that this has been an accumulation ...