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QIC expands private debt exposure in European infrastructure

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2026
QIC will invest EUR30 million ($49.6m) in French aerial emergency services provider SAF Aerogroup, growing its presence in the European infrastructure debt market. SAF Aerogroup provides mission-critical aerial emergency medical, firefighting and humanitarian ...

Australians unlock only 1% of $600bn in home equity: Deloitte

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2026
... products to eligible Australian households. Reverse mortgage volumes across the private and public sectors, including the government's Home Equity Access Scheme, totalled around $5.5 billion as at 30 June 2025, representing more than 40,000 households ...

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

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2026
... billion in total and permanent disability (TPD) benefits as a direct consequence of the same legislative changes. The government introduced the new rules in 2019 to curb super funds charging excessive and unnecessary fees related to life insurance and ...

What Australia must do to be at the forefront of financial innovation

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2026
... collaboration between the private and public sectors, and a simpler regulatory and policy backdrop. Last year, the federal government consulted on its proposed digital asset regime in October, shortly after ASIC renewed guidance to label some digital ...

NZ Super continues to build investment team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026
... contributing to the 2020 review of the fund's reference portfolio. She also worked as a senior investment analyst at the Government Superannuation Fund Authority and Westpac NZ, having started her career at AMP Capital Investors.

TCorp appoints financial markets manager

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026
... a half years. In the permanent role, he will oversee TCorp's funding strategy, balance sheet management, local government services and client risk solutions functions across the New South Wales government's financing and investment arm. Before ...

Treasury proposes options to block victim-survivors' super going to perpetrators

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026
... adding that it is unlikely draft legislation on the issue will be made available before the Federal Budget in May as the government does not wish to rush a decision. The government is still considering how such reforms should be applied in the case of ...

Big super to work with Canadian counterparts to drive investment

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
Australia's industry super funds and a raft of Canadian pension funds will work together to boost investment in their respective regions. A memorandum of understanding has been signed as part of the Canadian-Australian Pension Funds Investment Initiative ...

US exceptionalism may have peaked: ART

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
... to see more frequent and more severe disruptions," Parker said. "We also think this is a world where the demands on government to step up and do stuff is not going to go backwards. It's only going to go higher, whether it's to mitigate or to ...

Cbus calls for tax reform on TPD payouts in pre-Budget submission

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
... often needs to support them, their families and their recovery for the long term," Fok said. "We're calling on the government to simplify the tax settings on insurance-in-super payments, so members aren't left trying to untangle complex rules ...