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Platform funds, mega funds to dominate: Mercer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2026
... over $100 billion in assets, will dominate the superannuation landscape and overtake the 'retail versus industry fund' debate. The 2026 Mercer Shaping Super report notes non-platform mega funds hold 39% of today's market share. This is expected to grow ...

FSC questions SMC's claim on younger members' super switches

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2026
... to suit a client's broader financial circumstances. It added concerns of misleading data risks distorting the policy debate following the failures of Shield and First Guardian. "It is simply not correct to infer that a superannuation consumer who ...

Super tax changes shake HNWs' retirement confidence: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2026
... yet confidence in the rules that surround it has weakened - shaped by years of shifting legislative change and taxation debate, of which Division 296 is only the most recent chapter." Generation Life added that the findings underscore the importance ...

March RBA hike now on the cards

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2026
... concerning economic environment it is likely, at this stage, to expect an interest rate hike in both March and May. "The debate will be lively, as it should be, ultimately we expect the RBA to focus on inflation and lift the cash rate in both March and ...

Digital assets don't need new regulatory logic: ASIC

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2026
In its latest paper, ASIC has argued that while digital assets are a technological shift from current financial systems, the foundational regulatory principles for it remains the same. Speaking at the Melbourne money & finance conference, ASIC senior ...

Division 296 legislation passes, LISTO to increase

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2026
... to super, but those promises have since fallen apart. "Yet here we are not just changing superannuation but truncating debate on those changes to superannuation too. Why would Australians have believed them? The Prime Minister said it. The Treasurer ...

Top investment teams built on diverse views, transparency

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2026
... come through," Stevanovic said. For Pimco portfolio manager Rachael Boyte, good culture is when the investment team can debate the investment view and challenge it. Boyte told Morningstar this is achieved through excellent two-way communication and ensuring ...

Unintended consequences of passive investing materialise: MFS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026
The unintended consequences of the passive investing boom are materialising into ownership concentration, short termism and the erosion of long-term value creation, MFS Investment Management warns. Carol Geremia, president and co-head of global distribution ...

Product showcase: Strength amid noise

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2026
... inherently a conservative, income-focused strategy, and not one that primarily focuses on the tech 'boom or bubble' debate. "[The fund] provides Australian investors with access to US Middle Market direct lending via a portfolio of high quality ...

Gold soars over Trump's Greenland rhetoric

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
... and gold prices. We see this structural support as enduring." However, the staying power of gold's rally may be up for debate as Trump wound back threats to take Greenland by force when he addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos overnight. "I don't ...