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RBA opts to keep cash rate on hold

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
At its meeting yesterday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) reached a monetary policy decision to keep the cash rate unchanged at 3.6%. In explaining why, the board warned of possible rate rises in 2026 as it takes a more cautious response to inflationary ...

Prime Super awards fixed income mandate

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
Prime Super has appointed MFS Investment Management to manage an active global fixed income mandate. The $9 billion super fund will invest in the MFS Global Aggregate Core Plus Fixed Income strategy, which seeks to outperform the Bloomberg Global Aggregate ...

Renters need twice as much super, risk poverty in retirement: SCA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
Renters are headed for "dire retirement outcomes" as a couple who does not own their own house requires nearly double the amount in superannuation for a comfortable retirement compared to homeowners, according to Super Consumers Australia (SCA). The ...

ASIC sues Diversa for First Guardian failures

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
ASIC is suing Diversa Trustees for its role in the collapse of the First Guardian Master Fund, in which $300 million of member money was invested. In the Federal Court, ASIC put forth several allegations, starting with Diversa failing to conduct adequate ...

68% pass financial adviser exam: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
... exam opens 23 January 2026 and closes 13 February 2026. Separately, the CFP's Certification Exam held in November saw a pass rate of 64% for the 3970 candidates who sat it. The CFP board said the November cohort was the second-largest number of people ...

'Unretiring' a global trend: T. Rowe Price

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
T. Rowe Price's inaugural Global Retirement Savers Study has revealed nearly 34% of retirement savers worldwide expect to work at least part-time after retiring. The survey found this expectation is most pronounced in the United States, where 37% of ...

VanEck launches fixed-rate subordinated debt ETF

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
VanEck will launch a fixed-rate subordinated debt ETF on the ASX on December 12. The Australian Fixed Rate Subordinated Debt ETF (FSUB) will complement VanEck's SUBD strategy first introduced in 2019. SUBD currently has a total of $3.17 billion in assets ...

Australia's 'Super 6' embrace total portfolio approach: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2025
... collectively known as the "Super 6". Since 2017, AustralianSuper has leaped 17 spots forward in global rankings, which was the same rate as BlackRock and ahead of the Mubadala Investment Company's 15 spots. At the end of 2024, the report showed the top ...

Morningstar moves to pay-for-play model

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2025
Morningstar will offer issuer-initiated ratings in Australia starting June 2026, under which fund managers and financial product issuers will pay a fee to the research house for a rating. Morningstar said this is consistent with the prevailing market ...

Benchmark report reveals crucial blind spots in whistleblower protections

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025
... workplace culture, company size and the nature of its operations, may have influenced that outcome. The median disclosure rate, which is calculated per 100 employees, was around 0.22, while the mean disclosure rate was around 0.65. "We found that the ...