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Special feature: Shaping private markets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
Custodians are stepping up as regulators target super funds' $3.5 trillion private asset rush. Australia's super funds face mounting scrutiny over their rapid shift into private markets, as concerns grow about transparency, valuations and liquidity ...

Macquarie suffers first strike on pay package

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
Macquarie Group suffered its first strike against its remuneration report at the annual general meeting yesterday, with 25.4% of shareholders expressing their dissatisfaction. Macquarie Group chair Glenn Stevens told the meeting that senior leaders ...

AI, corporate tax, skilled workers key to productivity: PC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
The Productivity Commission says the nation should adopt a "growth mindset" by embracing artificial intelligence (AI), boosting human capital and rejigging corporate taxes to boost static productivity levels. The report, Growth mindset: how to boost ...

Macquarie chief financial officer steps down

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
Macquarie chief financial officer Alex Harvey has decided to step down from the role and Macquarie's executive committee, effective 31 December 2025. Macquarie said Harvey intends to retire mid-2026 after completing an extended handover to his successor ...

Private debt leads fixed income returns: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2025
The Morningstar Fixed Income Sector Wrap found the fixed income sector has seen a robust 12 months across the board. Morningstar's qualitative research assessments currently cover 79 fixed-income strategies available to Australian investors. "It was ...

Financial services workers earn 12% pay rise

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2025
Financial services employees saw their pay packets rise 12% in the last 12 months, according to Hays' annual Salary Guide, outpacing salary growth for lawyers and technology professionals. After canvassing more than 12,000 employees from Australia ...

Blue Owl adds to local team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
Blue Owl Capital, one of Wall Street's largest alternative asset managers, continues to add to its local headcount with the appointment of Tracy Jones. The listed New York alternatives manager has hired Jones from Pacific Equity Partners, where ...

Most traded stocks in the first half of the year revealed

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
Retail and advised investors both invested heavily into mining and energy industries in the first half of the year, according to new research from AUSIEX. Despite strong growth in the Commonwealth Bank share price, it isn't the most sought-after stock ...

Instos turn to risk as volatility lessens: State Street

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
Institutional investors are aggressively buying into risk as stocks are reaching new highs, likely spurred by falling market volatility as Australia sees surges in local investments, new data from State Streeet finds. The State Street Risk Appetite ...

Australia an 'efficient' market for multinationals

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2025
A new report by Mercator by Citco (Mercator) has revealed that while multinational organisations face significantly higher operations demands in Asia-Pacific (APAC), Australia has proven to be one of the most efficient markets. The report found that ...