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Super balances rise but gender retirement gap remains stubborn

VINNY VUCAGO  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2026
... reforms like payday super laws, paying super on paid parental leave and boosting support for low-income working people have made big strides forward for women, but this data confirms that we need to fix the remaining gaps in super coverage, so no woman ...

Financial services investment leaders celebrated

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2026
... Financial Standard were presented in Sydney last night. Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) and MLC Asset Management were the big winners last night taking out three awards each. MAM won for its Macquarie Australian Enhanced Plus Equities Fund, Macquarie ...

Musk's $106bn fundamental-defying IPO lands on Nasdaq

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2026
SpaceX has raised US$75 billion ($106.8bn) in the biggest-ever stock market debut, valuing Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company at US$1.77 trillion. It floated 555 million shares at a price of US$135 per share. "The valuation being ascribed ...

BlackRock expands active ETF range

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2026
... will use the firm's dividend rotation approach alongside proprietary investment insights that incorporate human expertise, big data and machine learning. The strategy draws on more than 1000 data signals to identify higher yielding opportunities across ...

FEATURE | Aged care: The longevity dividend

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2026
... healthcare spending," he says. "And for those people becoming a lot more health conscious, that's going create a pretty big market in terms of healthcare spending. So those are the longer-term trends that are going to support healthcare." Within ...

Vanguard's oldest ETF eclipses to US$1tn in value

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2026
... ETF didn't always look like the favourite to hit the trillion-dollar mark first," Sotiroff said. "It was the smallest of the big three S&P 500 ETFs with about US$225 billion to its name just five years ago. State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF was the giant ...

Cooling economy could keep RBA on hold

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2026
Australian gross domestic product (GDP) rose 0.3% in the March quarter 2026 and 2.5% compared to a year ago, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). "Economic growth slowed in the March quarter, with modest household and public sector ...

US and Aussie shares 'incredibly divergent': UniSuper

VINNY VUCAGO  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2026
... companies including CSL, ASX and Brambles suffered sharp share price declines after earning downgrades. "To me there are two other big themes in the Australian market... We did have bank reporting season early in the month, that was a bit disappointing. ...

Big Un finance chief's insider trading charges dropped

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2026
Big Un's former chief financial officer has been freed of insider trading charges following a hung jury and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) concluding it will discontinue further action. Andrew Corner's five-week trial ...

Product Showcase: Calm in the chaos

THE FINANCIAL STANDARD TEAM  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2026
... past periods, but three areas stick out the most. "The first would be in the deep value space where there's perhaps a big risk arbitrage between the upside and downside on the stock. With a capital cycle lens of looking through those companies, particularly ...