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Treasury seeks feedback on major super tax reform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2025
... Division 296 "enjoyed by individuals with large superannuation balances." The proposed changes centre on applying a 30% tax rate on earnings from superannuation balances between $3 million and $10 million, and a 40% tax rate on balances above $10 million. ...

Super moves: Aware, VFMC, CareSuper, UniSuper, NGS

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025
... strategist at the superannuation fund, he joins the country's largest bank as a director of fixed income and interest rate strategy. Yahyaei said: "Joining the global economic & market research team is an incredible opportunity. I am genuinely excited ...

Increases coming for veterans' superannuation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025
... increase by $326.4 million in 2025-26 and $3 billion over the four years to 2028-29, largely reflecting a higher-than-projected rate of indexation and increased recipient numbers for the Age Pension. Treasury also gave further details of how the Low ...

AMP upgrades North

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2025
... address an industry need to support advisers provide better advise to clients, especially amidst an increasing retirement rate. "We have this ambition to make sure we get advice to more clients who need it," she told Financial Standard. "Every day 700 ...

ASX-listed companies at breaking point: Alvarez & Marsal

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2025
... leads in distress levels, followed by Southeast Asia (14.0%), the UK (9.0%), and EMEA (8.8%). Domestically, the distress rate continues to rise and isn't confined to a single corner of the ASX or economy, it said. Retail and fashion lead the distress ...

Centrepoint Alliance expects core profit to top guidance

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
Centrepoint Alliance said it expects strong momentum to push its core profit to the top end of its guidance of $11.5 million to $12 million for the full year. The financial services firm forecasts EBITDA for H1 FY26 at $6 million, a 13% jump in earnings ...

Three megatrends to watch in 2026

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2025
Experts have identified the megatrends that are likely to play out in financial markets in 2026. Speaking to Financial Standard, policy changes coming out of the US, sticky inflation and how the artificial intelligence (AI) boom progresses will be the ...

FEATURE: Private credit | At the precipice

GLENDA KORPORAAL  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
The warning by JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon about the possibility of there being more "cockroaches" in the US private credit market has sparked a flurry of debate about risks in the market at a time when its potential is being assessed ...

RBA hike may come as soon as February

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... policy next year. Citi economists have changed their outlook from an assumption the RBA would remain on hold to anticipating a rate hike as early as February. "We believe a tight labour market, new (higher) inflation forecasts, strong housing and household ...

Vanguard identifies strongest asset classes for coming decade

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... challenged by constraints in supply models due to weak productivity growth, which have reduced the economy's potential growth rate. As a result, even a modest rebound in private demand and GDP growth could stall disinflationary momentum earlier in the ...