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Aged care reforms pushed to November

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
The government is delaying the implementation of the new Aged Care Act until November 1 following widespread concerns that stakeholders weren't given enough time to prepare. The new legislation was due to commence from 1 July 2025. Now, it will be effective ...

SS&C lands mandate from local boutique fund services provider

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
SS&C Technologies has been awarded a mandate by a boutique fund services provider to investment managers in Australia to support its fund services operations. Fundhost, which has $2 billion in assets under management, provides responsible entity, trustee ...

Stakeholders ask ASIC for tougher private markets regulation

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
ASIC is facing growing pressure to up the ante on regulating private markets, particularly private credit, as key stakeholders fear offerings are becoming increasingly accessible to retail investors. In response to the inaugural discussion paper that ...

Australia's billionaire boom branded 'morally wrong' by Oxfam

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
The ranks of Australian billionaires have more than doubled over the past decade, accumulating wealth at $137 million per day on average - $95,000 per minute, according to Oxfam Australia. Its acting chief executive Christina Muli described this as ...

Global stock markets rally, but Trump's next post could flip the script

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
Global stock markets roared back in May, staging a spectacular turnaround from the extreme volatility and negative returns that rattled most developed equity markets in April. But uncertainty still looms large. UniSuper head of fixed interest David ...

Touchstone closes flagship fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
Touchstone Asset Management has closed its flagship Australian equity fund nearly a decade after it launched. The Touchstone Index Unaware Fund shuttered in May, having been in operation since 4 April 2016. The fund aimed to outperform the return of ...

LGT Crestone, AUSIEX acquisitions finalised

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
AUSIEX has finalised its acquisition of FIIG Holdings, while LGT Crestone's takeover of Commonwealth Bank of Australia's (CBA) private wealth business has completed. AUSIEX, which is a subsidiary of Nomura Research Institute (NRI), has now expanded ...

ASIC alleges Choosi flogged Hannover life insurance products

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... companies." If the court finds that Choosi contravened ss 12DB and 12DF of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001, it could pay $16.5 million for a single contravention.

Minimum wage to rise 3.5%

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
The National Minimum Wage and all modern award minimum wage rates will increase by 3.5% on July 1. The minimum wage is currently $24.10 an hour and, following the Fair Work Commission's decision today, will rise to $24.95 an hour. This equates to a ...

Dai-ichi Life acquires 15% of M&G

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
Dai-ichi Life HD, which owns TAL, will acquire 15% of British asset manager M&G, with the two establishing a long-term strategic partnership across asset management and life insurance. Under the partnership, which is expected to produce at least US$6 ...