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APRA sharpens oversight, flags tech and geopolitical risks

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2026
... intelligence (AI) adoption and growing complexity in global markets reshape the financial risk environment. In its latest System Risk Outlook, the prudential regulator said Australia's financial system remained resilient and well positioned to withstand ...

HUB24 expands retirement options with TAL

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2026
... advisers to deliver better outcomes for their clients. "Choice and flexibility are fundamental to a trusted superannuation system, enabling advisers to deliver more personalised advice, strengthening engagement and outcomes, and driving ongoing innovation ...

CFS plots 'largest' retirement product expansion with new alliance

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026
... lifetime income at scale, and this collaboration tackles one of the hardest and least-solved problems in the retirement system - how to turn savings into income for life." Further, Generation Life chief executive Felipe Araujo said the Australian retirement ...

Government to fast track low-risk foreign investments

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026
... ensuring it is in Australia's national interest as well. "We are strengthening and streamlining Australia's foreign investment system to attract investment that drives economic growth, creates skilled jobs, and lifts competition and innovation." Last ...

Federated Hermes launches global equity fund

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026
Federated Hermes has expanded its Australian wholesale offering with the launch of the Federated Hermes Global Equity Fund, as the global asset manager deepens its push into the local wealth management market. The Australian unit trust, now registered ...

ASIC furthers simplification with regulatory roadmaps

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2026
... create a regulatory framework that supports compliance, fosters innovation and strengthens trust in Australia's financial system." This comes as ASIC also released Report 830, Regulatory simplification progress report, which outlines the work the regulator ...

ASFA joins Finance Industry Council of Australia

VINNY VUCAGO  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2026
... discussions. ASFA chief executive Mary Delahunty said superannuation has become a central pillar of Australian financial system and needed representation in policy debates affected the wider sector. "With over $4.5 trillion in assets under management ...

Tokenisation could inject $24bn annually: Project Acacia

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2026
... relatively lower level of dynamism in Australia's wholesale financial markets compared with other areas of the financial system, such as retail payments." The use cases highlighted opportunities across an asset lifecycle, including improved capital efficiency ...

Mulino targets retail investor protections, high-risk MISs: SIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2026
... monitored and managed. At the conference, Mulino said: "Managed investment schemes, clearly play a critical role in our system, as a collective investment vehicle, they play a critical role in capital markets. They can, in some contexts, though, be problematic ...

Removing CGT discount on all assets will make tax system fairer: Chalmers

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2026
... Treasurer Jim Chalmers said changes to the capital gains tax (CGT) is fundamentally about reducing distortions in the tax system as a whole and to introduce a more fair and neutral system in place of the current one. Speaking at the Bloomberg Forum for ...