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Future Fund veteran takes on new gig

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... markets across all asset classes, Thorburn also looked after research and insights. The investment professional was a senior member of the in-house strategy team from 2007 to 2012. Reporting directly to the chief investment officer for the last five ...

Future Group confirms more mergers ahead, undertakes review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... transferred into a larger fund. In making the decision, Equity Trustees considered "investment performance, cost efficiencies, member services, and the strategic direction of the Zurich Fund." It said that after doing so, it was satisfied that transferring ...

ASIC loses Block Earner case

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
The Federal Court has vindicated Block Earner by overturning a decision that it needed an AFSL to offer its Earner product and dismissing ASIC's appeal to impose penalties on the digital asset platform. Justices O'Callaghan, Abraham and Button ...

New sustainable real assets boutique eyes housing, aged care

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
A new investment boutique has launched in Melbourne, focused on sustainable and inclusive real assets. Peter Johnston, James Hooper, and Alexandra O'Dea have come together to form Socia Investors, 'socia' being the Latin word for 'partner'. ...

Funds SA deputy investment chief to depart

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
Funds SA will soon bid farewell to its deputy chief investment officer and director of equities. After seven years with the fund, Matthew Kempton is leaving to take up a new opportunity in Melbourne with an industry super fund. Kempton first joined ...

Government to 'crack down further' on financial abuse

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
The government will introduce new measures to target perpetrators of financial abuse, as part of its gender equality plan Building Australia's Future: Labor's Commitment to Women, launched yesterday by Labor senator Katy Gallagher and minister for social ...

Corporate fund selects Mercer Super for SFT

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2025
... for more than 20 years. APRA data shows that, as at December end, the fund had total assets of $676 million. It has 1690 member accounts, about 720 of which are active. The median account balance is about $200,000. The fund was also home to 32 defined ...

Spender criticises Labor's 'lack of urgency' on advice reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
Ahead of the federal election on May 3, independent member for Wentworth Allegra Spender criticised the government for its lack of action on urgent advice reforms. Speaking at the Financial Advice Association Australia's (FAAA) federal election ...

AMP super and investments business see more outflows

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
AMP's superannuation and investments business saw $108 million in net cash outflows in Q1, but still a significant reduction from $371 million in Q124. "Cashflows for the superannuation and investments business continued to progress towards positive ...

Div 296 must proceed to strengthen 'fairness' in superannuation: ASFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... concerns, including taxing unrealised gains and the lack of indexation on the threshold. This includes the independent member for Wentworth Allegra Spender who attended the Financial Advice Association of Australia's Federal Election Summit today ...