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A comfortable retirement now costs more than ever

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2026
... actual investment returns have not, which can reduce their Age Pension. This shifts more of a retiree's budget towards reliance on super rather than Centrelink," Delahunty said. While Delahunty said the rise in the lump sum amount reflects greater ...

Federated Hermes enters local wholesale market

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2026
... over 15 years. The new strategy leverages trade finance's ability to diversify investors' portfolios due to its limited reliance on traditional return drivers while providing quarterly liquidity, Federated Hermes explained. Federated Hermes head of trade ...

AI, operational failures key regulatory risks for ASIC in 2026

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2026
... to the Australian cyber security hotline, incident responses, and threat notifications. "Digitisation, legacy systems, reliance on third parties, and evolving threat actor capability continue to elevate cyber risk in ASIC's view," it said. ASIC urged ...

A new landscape for sustainable investing in 2026

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2026
... the question is whether these instruments can keep pace with actual energy consumption, or whether they mask an ongoing reliance on fossil fuels at the grid level," the report identified. Similarly, the report predicts that the AI transition will increase ...

Vanguard identifies strongest asset classes for coming decade

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... energy sources, primarily from renewables, are expected to become the dominant force in global energy systems, reducing reliance on fossil fuels, he said. Separately, inflation will remain above 3% out to 2027, he predicted. "The outlook for 2026 is ...

Life insurers to up external fund manager mandates: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
A large proportion of investment teams within life insurance firms say they will increase their reliance on external fund managers over the next five years, a new survey finds. Funds management technology platform Clearwater Analytics canvassed 150 ...

Agentic AI adoption 'crucial' for future success: Capgemini

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
... of efficient, fast, and personalised services." It comes as over half (51%) of executives are planning to reduce their reliance on physical service hubs in the future. Contributing to the paper, Volkswagen Financial Services UK head of architecture ...

Tech concentration in super a major concern: APRA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2025
... assess the scale of the issue. "We have now begun analysing the data to develop a financial system-wide view of entities' reliance on third party service providers and where particular concentration risks may lie," Smith said. "As finance, telecommunications ...

QIC backs first-of-its-kind battery supply chain in Qld

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
... not only substantial, but its end-to-end vertical integration offers Queensland much-needed domestic supply to reduce reliance on overseas sources," Crombie said. Vecco Group managing director Tom Northcott said: "With the support of our partners, Vecco ...

Commonwealth Super delivers 'resilient' performance for FY25

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
... retirement by steadily growing super through resilient portfolios - helping members retire with greater confidence and less reliance on market conditions at retirement," the super fund said. The target return for the fund's various investment options ...