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FAAA expands policy team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
The peak body for financial advisers has hired a policy and advocacy manager. Financial Advice Association Australia has appointed David Barrett to the newly created role, effective 24 March 2025. Based in Sydney, Barrett reports to the general manager ...

Active Super PM opens asset consultant

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Active Super senior portfolio manager Ken Pholsena has launched an asset consultancy to help wholesale clients fine-tune their investment strategies across multiple asset classes. Pholsena spent 16 years at Active Super and its predecessor the Local ...

Board cyber security oversight 'endangers' firms

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... are core governance responsibilities, so too is safeguarding shareholder interests against cyber threats," he said. For super funds and insurance firms, the FAR essentially imposes four heightened obligations on senior leaders: to act with honesty, integrity ...

TAL nabs AIA strategy lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... was tasked with checking the performance of the insurer's investments following the introduction of Your Future Your Super rules. As head of strategy, he also helped enhance shareholder value and the capital efficiency of AIA's annuities book ...

Green moves: RIAA, Ownership Matters, Pollination Group

ELIZABETH FRY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... membership platform." Meanwhile, Cbus has lost a second responsible investment analyst in as many weeks. Raveen Kuhadas quit the super fund to join Dean Paatsch at Ownership Matters, a boutique proxy voting advisory service and governance researcher. ...

Active Super to pay $10.5m for greenwashing

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... others involved in mining and tobacco, the Federal Court determined. Justice O'Callaghan said it is not disputed that the super fund's "contraventions were serious" after it benefitted from its misleading conduct by misrepresenting the "ethical" ...

Net zero, energy transition key election items: Grattan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Ahead of the federal election, the Grattan Institute has highlighted the move to net zero and energy transition as areas that should be prioritised by whoever wins. In terms of major reforms Grattan is calling for to achieve a net-zero economy, the ...

Future IM/Pact expands partnerships, appoints chair

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Future IM/Pact has expanded its private wealth partnerships with the addition of four financial institutions, while also welcoming a new chair of the advisory board. Morgan Stanley, Morgans Financial, Evans & Partners, and Canaccord Genuity have joined ...

ART appoints insurance chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
Australian Retirement Trust has appointed the interim head of insurance to the job permanently. Matthew Finney is now chief executive of ART Life, an APRA-regulated insurance entity and a wholly owned subsidiary of the superannuation giant. Finney was ...

Mercer adds to wealth team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... leader. Amber Morgan was at Northern Trust AM for almost two years developing investment solutions for asset owners like super funds, endowments and foundations, family offices, and sovereign wealth funds. Before Northern Trust, Morgan spent four years ...