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Platforms should be wary of cutting options: Experts

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2026
... that it is very important to provide optionality and choice," she said. "You could destroy your Australian share public markets capital issuance here if we push too far down a certain path, and that's not the role of a platform either." Maloney said ...

Janus Henderson expands private credit offering

VINNY VUCAGO  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2026
... said asset-backed finance offered investors structural protections and shorter duration characteristics at a time when markets continued to navigate "higher-for-longer" rates and macroeconomic uncertainty. "Legal receivables, likewise, represent a globally ...

ASIC backs Australia's fintech edge as AI reshapes financial services

VINNY VUCAGO  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2026
... by the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre found fintech and regtech innovation is reshaping global financial markets, with AI now being integrated into functions including credit underwriting, claims processing, portfolio management and disclosure. ...

Feature: Private credit | The fine print

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2026
... people fly in and fly out of the country looking for investments, it's hard for them because they don't know the markets. And real estate is not one market," he notes. A spokesperson for ASIC says in FY27 the regulator will conduct a data gathering ...

Aware Super dashboard not flashing red just yet

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2026
... is natural for those working in the superannuation industry. "It's not natural, actually, in many parts of private markets. Still there is a habit to confuse the two either inadvertently or deliberately." Warner said Aware Super is being very targeted ...

Behavioural constraint is costing retirees greatly: Allianz Retire+

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2026
... advisers in a difficult place. "Longevity is the one major retirement risk advisers can't meaningfully diversify away. While markets can be modelled and managed over time, traditional asset allocation strategies can't insure against the risk of outliving ...

APRA sharpens oversight, flags tech and geopolitical risks

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2026
... insurers and banks as geopolitical instability, rapid artificial intelligence (AI) adoption and growing complexity in global markets reshape the financial risk environment. In its latest System Risk Outlook, the prudential regulator said Australia's ...

Emerging markets progress from consumption to innovation: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026
Emerging markets offer compelling opportunities beyond the booming middle class-consumption narrative, according to investment specialists, who said the asset class has other significant growth opportunities, such as innovation, despite political and ...

Australian Unity hires from HESTA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026
... to 17 years with HESTA, Andrew Major will join Australian Unity as chief investment officer in the wealth and capital markets division. Major held a number of roles at HESTA over his tenure, including chief risk officer and more recently acting as a ...

Investors thrust into rules of the 'jungle': Economist

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026
... we're trying to distil what is noise here and what is signal. We know that geopolitics is becoming more of a factor in markets," she said, pointing to defence and warfare as some key drivers. Then there is the case of the US government. "Unfortunately ...