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Inflation 'uncomfortably high' as it rises to 3.8%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2026
... pressure on prices. Electricity costs remain elevated, new dwelling construction costs are proving slow to unwind, and higher global tariffs are beginning to flow through supply chains into consumer prices. Services inflation also remains sticky, which ...

Brighter Super names chief investment officer

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2026
... said: "Damien brings exceptional judgement, a strong international perspective and deep investment experience at a me when global markets and geopolitics are becoming increasingly complex." "I am confident his leadership will strengthen Brighter Super's ...

Aussie Olympian's brother pleads guilty for role in global scam

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2026
The brother of Australian breakdancing Olympian 'Raygun' has pleaded guilty for his role in a large global scam. Former finance director Brendan Gunn pleaded guilty to dealing with more than $180,000 when it was "reasonable to suspect those funds were ...

Former UGC adviser's appeal against ASIC ban accepted

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2026
A former United Global Capital (UGC) financial adviser has had his banning order shrunk by half after a successful appeal to the Administrative Review Tribunal. Milutin Petrovic was banned from providing financial services or performing any function ...

Federated Hermes expands Asia presence

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2026
... shop in Hong Kong to capitalise on Asia's "rapidly growing" wealth market. The announcement follows the appointment of its global fixed income chief investment officer earlier this month to succeed Robert Ostrowski, who is retiring in May this year. ...

Openmarkets to merge, list on Nasdaq

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2026
... trading technology platform. To enable a DeFi offering, Openmarkets said it has begun building an ecosystem of local and global partnerships and reviewing its regulatory authorisations. Openmarkets chief executive Dan Jowett said the transaction will ...

Janus Henderson to acquire Richard Bernstein Advisors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2026
... client assets. As part of the transaction, Richard Bernstein Advisors founder Richard Bernstein will join Janus Henderson as global head of macro and customised investing. Bernstein has over 40 years of experience on Wall Street, including as chief investment ...

Rodney Forrest handed prison sentence for $3m insider trading

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2026
Former investment manager Rodney Forrest has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment for insider trading and procuring others to trade in more than $3 million of Platinum Asset Management shares. In August 2024, Forrest secretly accessed the computer ...

Unemployment rate may tip the scale in favour of February RBA hike

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2026
... of labour market health, Bassanese said, the RBA's concerns about labour market tightness have not been subdued. The global economic and markets research team at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) also agreed that with evidence showing the ...

State Street enters strategic alliance with Qatar

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2026
... Cooperation Council (GCC) and supporting QNB's accelerating international growth. State Street said bringing together its global scale and QNB's deep local insight, the strategic alliance will enhance service delivery for clients and reinforce the two ...