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Morningstar widens private credit coverage, kicks off with Metrics

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... investigation revealing that private credit fund managers downplay the risks of their products and flout basic disclosures of the state of their investments. Olsen noted that the distribution, governance and manager track record would be the key attributes ...

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 ...

Australia's gender pay gap narrows: WGEA reports

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... revealed that the national gender pay gap has dropped by 0.7 percentage points (pp) to 21.1%, from 21.8% last year. Every state and territory reduced their gender pay gap with Western Australia recording the largest gap (28.8%) and Tasmania the smallest ...

ASIC to monitor union redundancy funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
Following a consultation process that was launched in June, ASIC has outlined its approach to the regulation of employee redundancy funds under the Corporations Act 2001 (Corporations Act), once the current relief expires on 1 April 2026. Operators ...

Inflation hits 3.8% in October

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2025
... and culture activities (+3.2%). Electricity costs rose 37.1% over the 12 months, with the annual rise primarily driven by state government rebates being used up by households, as well as the timing of the rollout of the Commonwealth Energy Bill Relief ...

Federation AM strengthens ESG oversight with fresh leadership

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2025
... for adviser engagement and distribution. Prior to joining Federation, Rozis has worked in sales roles at Colonial First State, Implemented Portfolios and Perpetual. "There is a growing appetite among advisers, platforms and family offices for alternative ...

Superannuation assets jump to $4.5tn: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2025
... Australian Retirement Trust (ART), Aware Super, UniSuper, Hostplus, Cbus, Rest, HESTA, Commonwealth Super Corporation, GESB, State Super, Super SA, ESSSuper, Equip Super and Brighter Super. In total, the world's largest 300 pension funds have reached ...

MLC Super adds advice, education head

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2025
MLC Super has appointed a former AMP, Colonial First State and Zurich executive to lead its advice function. Craig Weber has joined the super fund as head of education and advice after spending over six years at Ignition Advice in a similar role. In ...

FX coaching platform handed additional conditions over compliance failures

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2025
ASIC has imposed additional licence conditions on Learn to Trade (LTT) after it failed to comply with financial services laws over delayed lodgement, commanding it to appoint a consultant to review the business. LTT was granted an AFSL in January 2010 ...

TelstraSuper members caught off guard by Direct Access closure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2025
As it prepares to merge with Aware Super, TelstraSuper is closing its Direct Access option - and some members aren't happy about it. Last week, TelstraSuper informed members that Direct Access would be closed to new investments from this week. The ...