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ASIC tiptoes around private markets intervention

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
... "Listings on our public markets have been in decline for some time, so we need to understand more about whether that's a problem or not. In the private markets, we're seeing increasing levels of investment by people particularly [by] superannuation ...

CSLR costs driven by poor advice: AFCA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) lead ombudsman, investments and advice Shail Singh has told financial advisers that poor practices are the main contributor to the soaring costs of the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR). "It's ...

Fink takes private markets to next level

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
... tokenised funds "will become as familiar to investors as ETFs". But this is contingent on solving the identity verification problem. "Trade venues like NYSE and MarketAxess manage to do the same for buying and selling securities. But tokenised assets ...

Insurance in super remains a mystery to millions of Australians

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025
There is still millions of Australians paying for default insurance cover through their superannuation that they don't know about or understand, according to Super Consumers Australia (SCA). SCA found that 19% of people are unsure whether they have ...

ASIC told to 'end the chaos' of ASX CHESS issues

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics has released its final report on its reviews into ASIC. Committee chair Daniel Mulino MP said the report covered key issues relating to how the regulator deals with complaints and how it executes ...

Productivity problem a long-term trend: PC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
Australia's productivity continued to stagnate in the December quarter, suggesting that the productivity problem may be part of a long-term trend. The Productivity Commission's (PC) latest quarterly productivity bulletin found labour productivity ...

Australia can lead energy transition, climate investing: Panel

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
... and gas sector". "We host the world's largest coal port in Newcastle - 95% of its exports are coal. We have a huge problem with fugitive emissions in this state, and we need a lot of technology work done there," she said. To tackle this, Kimmorley ...

Budget deficit to balloon to $42.1bn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... also be reduced by $150 this year - costing the government around $1.8 billion. To fight Australia's productivity problem, Chalmers said the government would be investing more in people to boost "dynamism and competition", including abolishing non-compete ...

State Super: In decline but doing fine

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
... learning program which scans the market and does what a team of 100 analysts would do, which is look at this very complex problem and all the various correlations," he said. The system flags anomalies to Wu's team to investigate. If they can build a ...

Skills gap crisis costing Australia $3.5bn a year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
... that more attention is needed to be placed on post-school options during high school years. "What starts off as a small problem of a young person finishing school and being unsure of what is best for them becomes a big problem down the track, ultimately ...