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Magellan to merge with Barrenjoey for $906m

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2026
... beginning as a founding investor. "Joining forces provides an ideal platform for our next phase of growth together as a top-tier financial services group, while ensuring our clients and our people remain at the centre of everything we do," he said. Magellan ...

Kapstream launches ASX-listed investment trust

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2026
... will be managed by Kapstream Capital with Equity Trustees acting as the responsible entity. "With the decline of Additional Tier 1 capital instruments (hybrids), investors are increasingly seeking reliable listed alternatives," Janus Henderson global ...

Member governed super boards deliver more: SMC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2026
... Investment expenses follow the same pattern, with profit-to-member funds showing greater cost-efficient outcomes at every size tier," the report reads, adding that the top 10 performing balanced options in 2025 were all profit-to-member funds with a ...

Oxfam calls for net wealth tax

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2026
The average Australian billionaires' wealth grew by almost $600,000 a day in the past year, or over $10.5 billion collectively, Oxfam research found. Globally, billionaire wealth jumped by over 16% in 2025, three times faster than the past five-year ...

I Squared Capital rolls out $300m sustainable energy solution

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2026
... megawatt-hours (MWh), of solar hybrid plants in Victoria and NSW. These initiatives are secured by 20-year agreements to a tier 1 hyperscale, with the guaranteed cash flows enabling further scale and investment in lasting energy infrastructure. In the ...

Super funds' external fund manager spend hits $2bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2026
... capabilities. By 2025, however, nearly every super fund managing over $20 billion has established "robust internal teams, creating a tier of technically proficient investment decision makers within the organisation." Some 17.3% of managers cited internalisation ...

CPP Investments, Goodman Group partner in $14bn data centre deal

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 23 DEC 2025
... longstanding partnership with Goodman Group and establish a strong European foothold in the data centre sector across key tier one markets, aligned with our global data centre strategy," CPP Investments senior managing director and global head of real ...

South Korea looks to Australia for next sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... industries, like artificial intelligence and robotics, it said. Currently, regulations state that a holding company's second-tier subsidiary must own 100% of any third-tier subsidiaries. This will be reduced to a minimum of 50% to assist industries that ...

VanEck launches fixed-rate subordinated debt ETF

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
... billion. Neiron said APRA's mandated total loss absorbing capacity (TLAC) requirements for banks is further driving demand for tier 2 issuance. "Financial institutions have shifted tier 2 capital issuance to both floating and fixed rate to accommodate ...

FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
In the book The Lucky Country, the late author Donald Horne provides a piercing assessment of Australia in 1964, stating that its prosperity is derived from good fortune rather than industriousness or ambition. He ruminated about the future challenges ...