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Workplace mental ill-health can cost Australia $27bn: Report

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2026
Workplace mental health issues are directly costing the Australian economy $12 billion per annum in lost gross domestic product (GDP), with the cost set to rise by more than 125% over the next 15 years in excess of $27 billion a year. New research from ...

Showcase: A technical advantage

THE FINANCIAL STANDARD TEAM  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2026
Flexible choices can drive higher retirement balances. Modelling from the 2026 Intergenerational Report (IGR) released in September predicts that by 2065-66, the number of Australians aged 85 or older will triple to 1.9 million - a huge cohort that ...

Pacific Equity Partners acquires FleetPartners

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2026
Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) will acquire ASX-listed FleetPartners for around $1 billion, after a bidding war with Japan-based Orix and Sumitomo Corporation. Under the deal, SG Fleet Management - a mobility solutions provider owned and controlled by ...

Swedish PE giant EQT takes Cleanaway private in $9.3bn deal

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2026
Swedish private equity giant EQT AB Group will acquire ASX-listed Cleanaway Waste Management and take it private in a deal valuing the waste management giant at $9.3 billion. EQT will pay $3.095 in cash for each share, a premium of 32.1% to the closing ...

Advice firms lacking AI integration: Iress

VINNY VUCAGO  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) is delivering productivity gains across financial advice, but only 7% of practices have embedded the technology across most of their workflows, research from Iress has found. Research by Iress and Signal Advisory, drawing ...

ETF assets hit $388bn as inflows near $7bn

VINNY VUCAGO  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2026
Australia's exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry attracted $6.9 billion in net inflows during September, taking total assets under management to a record $388 billion as investors continue to favour index-based strategies, international equities and ...

GQG records further outflows despite positive returns

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2026
GQG Partners recorded net outflows of $3.3 billion (US$2.3bn) in September, extending a difficult year for the ASX-listed fund manager despite positive investment performance across its four primary strategies. The manager's latest funds under management ...

Vale Richard Morecroft

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2026
Veteran broadcaster Richard Morecroft has passed away, aged 70. Tributes have poured in after Morecroft died on Tuesday, 6 October, on the NSW South Coast, following a cancer diagnosis he revealed in July this year. His partner of 36 years, artist Alison ...

Instos seek returns from PM amid turbulence: IFM

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2026
Institutional investors are constantly seeking resilience and growth amid a volatile market environment, as many are resorting to private markets, with a focus on infrastructure, to achieve that, IFM Investors said. IFM Investors' Private Markets 700 ...

Global X urges investment education as property values fall

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2026
... for Australians to improve their investment knowledge, Global X said. Latest figures by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed household wealth increased by 1% to a record $19.39 trillion in the June quarter. Superannuation reserves rose by ...