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Perennial expands wholesale offer for pre-IPOs

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2026
... their investment objectives. The Perennial Better Future Trust, Perennial Better Future Active ETF (IMPQ) and Melior Australian Impact Fund will undergo an orderly wind-up, with assets to be divested and capital returned to investors.

Number of Aussie investors hits record high

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2026
A record 11.5 million Australian adults now hold investments outside their superannuation and primary home, according to the ASX. The ASX Australian Investor Study 2026, based on a survey of 4495 Australian adults, found investors accounted for 54% ...

Janus Henderson launches global equities active ETF

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2026
... believe that deep fundamental research can meaningfully enhance investment outcomes. The newly available ETF gives Australian investors with benchmark-constrained global equity allocations access to Janus Henderson's high-quality research in an ETF ...

ASIC consults on new digital asset laws

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2026
... new laws for operators of digital asset platforms (DAPs) and Tokenised Custody Platforms (TCPs), as well as existing Australian financial services licence (AFSL) holders and entities dealing with digital assets. Under the proposed guidance, firms will ...

First Sentier lists active ETF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2026
... Investors has listed the First Sentier Global Listed Infrastructure Fund (Hedged) Active ETF (ASX: PWER), now available to Australian advisers and investors. First Sentier said PWER invests in a portfolio of high-quality global infrastructure companies ...

Stumping up

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2026
"No one can predict a fraud in advance. We're not clairvoyants." The chair of Diversa Trustees, Vincent Plant, testified before last month's parliamentary committee inquiry into the collapse of the Shield and First Guardian master funds. The ...

RBA switches to 'decidedly hawkish' tone

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2026
... require accepting slower growth in demand and employment than would otherwise be the case." Commonwealth Bank head of Australian economics Belinda Allen said the Minutes suggest the board are not worried about weakness in some recent data. "On the increase ...

'Flawed' CSLR model needs to be redesigned: SMC

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2026
The latest proposal from the government to see super funds contribute to the Compensation Scheme as a Last Resort (CSLR) would force everyday Australians to fund failures which arose in unrelated high-risk financial services, the Super Members Council ...

Treasury consults shifting tax debts from victims to abusers

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2026
Treasury is consulting on extending the powers of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to strengthen its response to financial abuse. This would allow the taxation office to pause debt recovery against victim-survivors, pursue the debts from perpetrators ...

Longwave brings small-cap strategy to ASX

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2026
... Capital Partners has launched an actively managed exchange traded fund on the ASX, giving investors listed access to its Australian small-cap strategy as the boutique targets opportunities beyond the large-cap market. The Longwave Australian Small Companies ...