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AMP new boss overhauls executive team

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2026
... property. Jarrett has been with AMP for the last five years and previously worked in senior roles at Westpac's institutional bank division and Macquarie Bank. AMP has appointed Jackie Cleary as its new chief financial officer, hailing from investment ...

Feature: Private credit | The fine print

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2026
... US$170 million ($236m). Dimon was warning that the collapse could signal wider problems with the quality of loans across non-bank lending. More recently Blue Owl Capital - a US listed private credit manager - applied its 5% cap on withdrawals after redemption ...

APRA sharpens oversight, flags tech and geopolitical risks

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2026
APRA has intensified its supervision of superannuation trustees, 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 ...

Investors thrust into rules of the 'jungle': Economist

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026
... that as well." Australia, though, is an outlier compared to its peers. Over the next 12 months, Mousina predicts the Reserve Bank of Australia will raise the base rate twice. At the May meeting, interest rates rose by 25bps to 4.35%. "That is going to ...

Bell Financial launches Tandem Capital

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026
... lending arrangements through a dedicated portal. The launch comes as demand for margin lending rebounds. According to Reserve Bank of Australia data cited by the firm, the value of margin loans increased to about $16.8 billion in December 2025, up from ...

Oil price shock to hit consumers 'relatively quickly': RBA

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026
RBA assistant governor Sarah Hunter said the central bank expects firms to pass-through higher input costs due to the Middle East conflict to consumers relatively quickly. Speaking at the Bloomberg Forum for Investment Managers event in Sydney, Hunter ...

Buyer beware: Private credit as a defensive play

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2026
... tackle this, they should first start with defining what private credit is. "Private credit is a loan that's not on a bank balance sheet, and not in the bond markets, but a loan on a spectrum of risk, [ranging from] investment-grade replacements to ...

ASFA joins Finance Industry Council of Australia

VINNY VUCAGO  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2026
The Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA) has joined the Finance Industry Council of Australia (FICA), marking the first time the superannuation sector has formally been represented within the peak coordinating body for Australia's broader ...

Advent builds Australian presence with new appointment

VINNY VUCAGO  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2026
... sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund. Her previous board roles include positions as Macquarie Group, National Australia Bank, AMP, Quantas Airways, Wesfarmers and Avia. Prior to her board career, Cross held senior executive roles across seven countries ...

Tokenisation could inject $24bn annually: Project Acacia

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2026
Project Acacia, the brainchild of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC) to explore a tokenised wholesale asset ecosystem in Australia, has completed its experimental and research phase, which has ...