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ASIC alleges Choosi flogged Hannover life insurance products

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
ASIC has taken Choosi to the Federal Court for allegedly failing to provide a range of comparable options on life and funeral insurance policies to customers and instead flogging products solely from Hannover Life Re. From at least 1 July 2019 and to ...

Soul Patts merges to create new $14bn company

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
... every Brickworks share they hold, implying a value of $30.28 per share. This represents a 10.1% premium to the last closing price of $27.51 on May 30, an 11.9% premium to the one-month volume-weighted average (VWAP) price of $27.07, a 21.9% premium to ...

Iress completes sale of super business

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
... highlighted there is no change to its FY25 guidance from the divestment. Iress Group chief executive and managing director Marcus Price said the offloading of the super business will help the company to focus on its core objectives. "As we complete this ...

Awareness of options could boost advice access: CFS

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
Superannuation is the number one topic Australians want financial advice on, however a significant proportion have little to no idea they can pay for it through their super. Based on a survey of 2250 Australians, Colonial First State's (CFS) Empowered ...

Allan Gray exposes 'hateful eight' bubble threat

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... beyond their comfort zone if they want to achieve outperformance. "The recent period of strong share market performance and price insensitive investment flows appears to have led to significant market dislocation and stretched fundamentals. Trade tensions ...

BlackRock to list its first active ETF in Australia

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
BlackRock Australia is set to launch its first local active ETF, bringing a US equities strategy. The iShares US Factor Rotation Active ETF (ASX: IACT), expected to list on the ASX in mid-June, is priced at 0.45%. It aims to outperform the broad US ...

La Trobe debuts first ASX-listed investment product

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
La Trobe Financial, the Brookfield-owned alternative asset manager with $20 billion in assets under management, has launched its first fund on the ASX. The IPO seeks to raise between $100 million and $300 million, with units priced at $2.00. La Trobe ...

Commodities 'crucial' for portfolio resilience: QIC

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
... contracts traded on exchanges that transact a specific quantity of a commodity at a predetermined future date at an agreed price, QIC explained. These contracts cover a broad spectrum of commodities including energy, metals, agriculture and other sectors ...

DeepSeek, Alibaba: Silver linings for emerging markets strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... technology can be built at a fraction of the cost that did not require state-of-the-art chips. Nvidia, for example, saw its share price tank 17% and wipe more than US$500 billion off its market value. Taiwan's TSMC is another company that Whiting ...

MLC Expand reduces fees

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... reductions will also benefit accounts in linked groups where balances are aggregated for fee purposes. McCarthy added the price reduction is a "perfect example" of committing to improving retirement outcomes and fostering simplicity for advisers. "The ...