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Kenya to establish sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
Kenya is planning to roll out its first sovereign wealth fund as it looks to safeguard its income derived from oil, gas and minerals mining. The Kenya Sovereign Wealth Fund is designed to provide a buffer from fluctuations in resource revenues or macro-economic ...

M&A makes rebound, creating higher-value deals: Deloitte

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2025
Stronger balance sheets and lower interest rates are among the main drivers of renewed momentum in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), according to new research. Momentum is building again after a period of relative pause, Deloitte's The Deal in Focus ...

Super moves: AusSuper, Aware, MLC, JANA, VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... over 17 years of domestic and international experience across funds management and banking, covering fixed income, interest rate derivatives and currencies. Most recently, he was at Jamieson Coote Bonds for nearly four years, having left VFMC, where ...

Feature: Group insurance | Cold comfort

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... and permanently disabled, even where the medical evidence shows there is a chance they could return to work." Overall, the rate of TPD claims for mental health reasons among people in their 30s increased by 732% over the past decade, according to Australia's ...

APAC insurers favour multi-alternatives strategies: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... to the survey, said AXA's private market investments are concentrated in credit strategies, with a preference for floating-rate assets, which can limit exposure to interest rate duration risk. "We expect private credit to remain a growing component of ...

Listed asset managers trail ASX 200 in 2025: Morningstar

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... seen in 2024. Morningstar equity analyst Shaun Ler said even though equity markets appear buoyed by optimism around further rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve, it does not necessarily translate into performance for traditional active managers. "Flow ...

'We have entered a new economic era': CBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) chief economist Luke Yeaman has warned investors that the world has entered a "new economic era" where the rules are "very different", in his most recent economic update. "Things that have been disdained in recent decades are ...

Family trusts safe from reform for now: Mulino

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... have emerged that the government might look to reduce the capital gains tax discount currently available, or that a flat tax rate of 24-30% would be applied to distributions. Australian Unions has called for a minimum 25% on disbursements from family ...

MLC Expand targets time savings with new AI capabilities

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... that if AI is implemented "front-to-back", a business can provide "functionality and features to the market at 10% of the rate you do today." "I think AI is improving and driving adviser efficiency, which will create revenue and growth on platforms," ...

Feature: Compliance | Passing the buck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... issues within the financial services industry is the fact that investment funds themselves typically pay research houses to rate them. "The whole research industry is highly conflicted. It shouldn't be conflicted, but it is inevitably conflicted ...