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Investment managers enter 'paradox' in 2026: Deloitte

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2025
Deloitte's 2026 investment management outlook report said the investment management industry will face a paradox in 2026: elusive profit growth, yet the opportunity for differentiation has never been greater. The report said investors who continue to ...

TAL enhances TPD offering, support for self-employed customers

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
TAL has introduced a new total and permanent disability (TPD) support option to its flagship retail product and implemented additional support for self-employed customers around income protection. The integrations follow TAL's partnership with SANE ...

ASX to undergo 'circuit breaker' reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2025
The ASX has agreed to a package of reforms aimed at strengthening confidence in Australia's critical market infrastructure, providing certainty about the market operator's reset, and responding to the Interim Report released today by the panel of the ...

Mercer doubles down on for-purpose sector

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
Mercer is doubling down on the for-purpose sector, appointing a senior business development manager to its burgeoning endowments and foundations business across the Pacific. Lydia Reeves will take up the new job in January partnering with prospective ...

Vanguard identifies strongest asset classes for coming decade

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
According to Vanguard's outlook, high-quality US fixed income, US value-oriented equities, and non-US developed markets equities will have the strongest risk-returns over the coming five to 10 years. Vanguard predicts US value-oriented equities will ...

Brookfield, sovereign wealth fund sign AI joint venture

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
Brookfield is partnering with a newly established subsidiary of the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) to fund and develop artificial intelligence infrastructure. Earlier this week, the QIA launched Qai, a dedicated AI company. The aim is for Qai to develop ...

Cbus appoints chief financial officer

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
Cbus has welcomed a chief financial officer to oversee finance, data and analytics, business risk and compliance, and investment enablement. Tim Elliott joins Cbus from Housing Australia where he was the chief financial officer for a year. He brings ...

APAC investors push for 24-hour trading in US markets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2025
A new whitepaper by DTCC explores the implications of US markets switching to a 24x5 trading schedule, allowing investors to trade 24 hours a day, five days a week. The paper said global demand, especially from APAC investors, and regulatory permissibility ...

Life insurers to up external fund manager mandates: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
A large proportion of investment teams within life insurance firms say they will increase their reliance on external fund managers over the next five years, a new survey finds. Funds management technology platform Clearwater Analytics canvassed 150 ...

AZ NGA partners with Sydney Financial Planning

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2025
Advice platform AZ Next Generation Advisory (AZ NGA) has partnered with Sydney Financial Planning to grow the firm's presence. Through this collaboration, AZ NGA will expand its reach in the eastern suburbs, where Sydney Financial Planning bases its ...