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Australian private capital sector totals $139bn: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... (12.4%), Asia (11.7%), and the rest of the world (9.8%). Despite the steadiness, private capital fundraising fell to the lowest level in a decade from over $10 billion in 2023 to about $5 billion throughout last year. Preqin also highlighted the number ...

FAAA calls for stronger consumer protections in advice reforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
The Financial Advice Association of Australia (FAAA) has opposed collective charging for "always complex and costly" retirement planning advice and emphasised the need for consumer protection in the provision of super nudges in its submission to Treasury ...

Future Fund muscles past annual target return, lags in March quarter

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... return. The mandate target return is CPI plus 4% to 5% per annum over the long term, with an "acceptable but not excessive level of risk." Future Fund chief executive Raphael Arndt said this was "a strong result" that reflected years of work to ensure ...

Magellan sees $1bn monthly outflows

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... connection with Magellan's strategic partnership with Vinva Investment Management. Magellan's AUM is now almost back to the same level as when it reported its half year result to 31 December 2024. At the end of the half, AUM was at $38.6 billion. When ...

ASIC streamlines AFSL applications

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
... separately upload additional documentation and the ability to select financial products and services at a more granular level so that ASIC can better understand the financial services that applicants intend to provide," the regulator said. ASIC said ...

Rest details internal program to reform death benefit processes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... Daly conceding the fund hasn't always met expectations. "Our members and their beneficiaries rightly expect the highest level of service from us, and we acknowledge there are times when, despite our best endeavours, we unfortunately don't meet ...

No US recession priced in yet: UniSuper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... don't think the current market is actually priced for a recession. The PE ratio is still at quite a historically high level." Colosimo added that the tariffs also had a surprising impact on bond markets, as investors saw both the share market and ...

Global X China Tech ETF in the works

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
... cautious, with broader concerns around growth, regulation, and global positioning keeping multiples compressed even as company-level fundamentals stabilise. The firm said valuations for China's top seven technology companies are trading at less than ...

ASX admits CHESS tech staff 'stretched'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
The ASX has completed a resourcing and capability review for CHESS, after an outage occurred in late December 2024 which saw a "technical issue" on the CHESS Batch Settlement that disrupted and delayed several days' trade settlements. This outage ...

JANA wins Aboriginal Investment NT mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
... assets over the short to medium term. It focuses on place-based, social and cultural investments. It aims to maintain a high level of liquidity to remain readily available for Aboriginal Investment NT's activities, including grant funding and community-led ...