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Special feature: Hunting for value

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
Markets have all but recovered from when 'Liberation Day' threatened a meltdown, and asset classes of all flavours are pushing to new highs. But with valuations ahead of fundamentals amid uncertainty, fixed income is in focus as investors look ...

Unemployment falls, more women enter the workforce

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
... participation rate reached 60.9% and 63.5% respectively, both new historical highs. The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) welcomed the strong lift in both employment and pay for women. "This new data shows the gender pay gap has been stubbornly ...

Funds SA finalises investment team overhaul

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
Funds SA has finalised the restructuring of its investment team, shuffling several roles around and creating some new ones. The organisation, which manages the investments of 13 different super fund, endowment and insurer clients including Super SA ...

Insignia offloads IOOF Alliances to Entireti

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
Entireti has acquired IOOF Alliances, a provider of support services for AFSLs, from Insignia Financial for an undisclosed sum. IOOF Alliances will merge with Jigsaw Advice Solutions to form Entireti Alliances. About 70 self-licensed advisory firms ...

Four men charged over sophisticated bond scam

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
Four residents of Victoria have been charged with a slew of money laundering offences for allegedly using fake social media advertisement and investment comparison sites to help run a bond scam. ASIC alleges that between January and July 2021, Dimitrios ...

Overcoming the three-body problem in advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
Financial advisers have heard how an active, factor-based approach can help eliminate the three-body problem in financial advice. In 1867, Sir Isaac Newton identified the three-body problem. Relating to the laws of gravity, he found that it's impossible ...

Special feature: Shaping private markets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
Custodians are stepping up as regulators target super funds' $3.5 trillion private asset rush. Australia's super funds face mounting scrutiny over their rapid shift into private markets, as concerns grow about transparency, valuations and liquidity ...

McKell Institute calls for CGT 'circuit breaker'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2025
A new paper from the McKell Institute calls for a major shake-up of capital gains tax (CGT) via a 'circuit breaker' proposal to the stalled national housing debate. The paper suggests increasing or decreasing the CGT discount is too simple of ...

Alternatives stable pushes Navigator assets higher

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2025
Ongoing volatility continues to bolster Navigator Global Investments' (NGI) performance as its stable of active, alternative strategies saw assets under management (AUM) jump to US$86 billion at the end of June. While the global fundraising landscape ...

Section 899 ditched but companies face tax uncertainties

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2025
While Australian investors breathed a resounding sigh of relief when US President Donald Trump binned section 899 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), local multinationals, however, were lumped with grave uncertainties surrounding the global Pillar ...