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Strategic partnerships focus for global family businesses: Deloitte

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... said they took around 21% to 30% of the profit from the business. According to a latest KPMG study, about two in five Australian family offices are run by chief executives who are a member of the family and can earn up to US$625,000. "You need strategic ...

FEATURE: Fund admin | Tight Ship

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... AI to generate complaints letters and correspondence using large language models and is looking at applying to the Australian market. "Clients that we talk to and appoint us like the global scale we have. They like the technology and it's an expectation," ...

Local PGIM manager exits

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... Hong Kong-based managing director Eduard Wehry. PGIM declined to comment. The asset manager recently bolstered its Australian real estate business with the appointment of two executives to spearhead growth across its debt and equity platform. Sam Mellor ...

GAM names distribution and product lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
GAM Investments is bringing back one of its own to lead the charge on growth, with Australian executive Tim Rainsford returning after a five-year break to helm the Swiss asset manager's product and distribution efforts. Rainsford, who studied at ...

Super moves: AusSuper, Aware, MLC, JANA, VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
Major players in alternatives and real assets are reshuffling their ranks, with asset consultants, super funds and investment managers all announcing new hires and promotions. AustralianSuper confirmed that head of mid-risk portfolios Jason Peasley ...

Complaints still too high: AFCA annual review

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority's (AFCA) annual review shows that in FY25, and for the second consecutive year, more than 100,000 complaints were lodged. In investments and advice, large scale collapses in the financial advice industry ...

Equip Super searches for new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... Togethr Trustees umbrella in late 2019. Until their official merger in 2021, his appointment marked the first time two Australian superannuation funds had the same chief executive concurrently. Prior, he was chief executive of Computershare in Australia ...

Feature: Retirement | Rewarding risk

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... investors have been spared the ravages of inflation in recent decades, it is a risk which should still be planned for. Australian CPI inflation hit 7.8% in the December quarter of 2022, the highest in three decades, and gave investors a small taste of ...

Feature: Group insurance | Cold comfort

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... spotlight - the rapid jump in mental health claims and how long they can take to be settled. In calendar year 2024, Australian insurers paid out a total of $2.2 billion in mental health claims, according to modelling from the Council of Australian Life ...

Adviser banned after $11.3m loss

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... higher than it was and that the Quant Fund had operated for longer than it had. "Northcott failed to understand the Australian financial services licensing and compliance regime and is not adequately trained, or is not competent, to provide one or more ...