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Productivity Commission recommends corporate tax cut

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
A new Productivity Commission (PC) proposal suggests slashing Australia's company tax rate would boost GDP by $14 billion with no net cost to the Budget over the medium term. Draft recommendations in its interim report, Creating a more dynamic and resilient ...

CALI launches review of Life Code

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
The Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI) has appointed Peter Kell to lead an independent review of the Life Insurance Code of Practice (Life Code). The review will begin on 1 October 2025. The Life Code sets enforceable standards life insurers ...

Rest boosts impact, sustainability investments

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
Rest has handed $232 million to specialist climate investment firm Wollemi Capital, which will now launch its first managed vehicle. The invested capital comes from the superannuation fund's Growth Alternative strategy. Rest said the investment ...

HUB24 recruits Vanguard sales manager

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
HUB24 has appointed a leader to its platform growth team, who will be responsible for building industry relationships once he takes the reins on September 2. Matt Willis has been appointed to the newly created role of executive general manager, platform ...

Pinnacle backs private markets managed accounts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
Pinnacle Investment Management has made a strategic investment in FinCap Group to support the launch of a private assets managed accounts platform for Australian financial advisers and their wholesale clients. The platform is designed to offer wholesale ...

Special feature: Shaping private markets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... integrators-joining fragmented data sources and linking public and private market signals. J.P. Morgan has been using AI for over a decade, mainly for fraud detection and operations. But now, it's applying the technology far more extensively across ...

Octopus awarded $1bn mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
Octopus Australia has announced a partnership with APG Asset Management, a Dutch pension fund investor with assets under management exceeding $1 trillion (€590 billion). As part of the partnership, APG intends to commit over $1 billion to Octopus ...

Rest calls for super performance test reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
In its submission to the government's Economic Roundtable, Rest has called for reforms to the superannuation performance test among a range of other measures. In its submission, Rest said the superannuation performance test needs to be reformed to cater ...

Lipman Burgon taps former Koda Capital head of research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025
The former head of research at Koda Capital resurfaces at a rival financial advisory firm. Jason Coggins, who left Koda Capital two years ago joins the investment committee of Lipman Burgon & Partners. Effective this month, he replaces investment committee ...

Economic growth has 'moderated': CommSec

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025
... relative unemployment. Victoria stayed in second spot for retail spending with it being 10% above its 'normal' levels or the decade average. Tasmania was steady in fifth place - ranking first on relative unemployment, with the trend jobless rate at a ...