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Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquires Asset Partners Private Wealth

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2026
... Asset Partners in 2012 as a principal. Asset Partners operates a fee-for-service model under a "two adviser per client policy to ensure all clients have access to quality specialised financial advice year-round regardless of holidays, illness or retirement". ...

ASIC considers changes to net asset requirements

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2026
... NTA requirement for responsible entities (and similar requirements that apply to other fund managers) to ensure that the policy intention of the requirement continues to be upheld," the consultation paper said. "However, we are also taking this opportunity ...

Another RBA hike in May 'not a done deal'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2026
... inflation." Betashares chief economist David Bassanese said the board's differing views "suggests a rate hike at the next policy meeting in May is not a done deal." Bassanese added that it reflects the tensions associated with raising rates in the face ...

March RBA hike now on the cards

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2026
... themselves, but whether this conflict becomes long-lived enough to impair economic growth or meaningfully alter the inflation and policy outlook. Markets can absorb shocks, but what they struggle with is duration meaning that 'time' is the tipping point ...

Digital assets don't need new regulatory logic: ASIC

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2026
... systemic stability. "The tendency to treat digital assets as fundamentally different risks repeating a familiar regulatory policy error: confusing technological novelty with economic novelty," Bollen said. Bollen noted similar claims were made during ...

Aussie super funds eye global partnerships at US summit

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2026
... help deliver long-term retirement outcomes for working Australians," IFM Investors said. IFM Investors has also released a policy blueprint outlining how Australian super funds can help bridge the funding gap for US infrastructure. ART chief investment ...

Division 296 legislation passes, LISTO to increase

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2026
... still be concessionally taxed for every Australian, from the lowest earner to those with $20 million in super," ASFA chief policy and advocacy officer James Koval said. "In almost every circumstance, people will pay a lower tax rate on their super investment ...

IFM maps path for super funds to meet US infrastructure funding gap

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2026
IFM Investors has released a policy blueprint Revitalising US infrastructure: The pension capital advantage, to help bridge the gap in US infrastructure funding with investments from Australian superannuation funds. This comes on the back of Australian ...

ASX loses $100bn as Iran war escalates

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2026
... investors all but fully priced out one of the two Fed rate cuts expected this year. Along with safe haven flows, this shift in policy expectation also pushed up the US dollar, which in turn hurt gold prices and the Australian dollar." Bassanese said ...

Major super reforms cost members $670m in death benefits: ASFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2026
... below $6000. ASFA estimated that five million individual accounts lost insurance cover as a result of this. ASFA chief policy and advocacy officer James Koval said the research shows a significant mismatch between current policy settings and the present-day ...