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FEATURE: Private equity | Time to deploy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2026
... of this, with US$1.2 trillion deployed across 9118 deals, but attention is very much turning to Europe and Asia as competition heats up. "In terms of deal value, 2025 was a very strong year for the PE market globally. We saw PE investors backed by record ...

NZ Super chair's term extended by two years

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2026
... managing director of former NZX-listed Hellaby Holdings. He has held diverse governance roles and legal expertise in competition and Māori resource law." She added that the reappointment underscores the government's commitment to ensuring the Guardians ...

APRA greenlights Insignia Financial takeover

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2026
... Board, Insignia Financial shareholders, and the court. It was already approved by ASIC, the ASX and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Insignia said its board continues to unanimously recommend shareholders vote in favour of the takeover ...

FSC questions SMC's claim on younger members' super switches

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2026
... funds into for-profit platform-based super funds had under $100,000 in super, and 8% had under $200,000. "Healthy competition and choice are important long-term features of Australia's super system, but alarm bells should be ringing when data shows ...

Geopolitical risks, private credit threaten financial stability: RBA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2026
... the software industry, where valuations have come under pressure in the face of potential disruption from AI-based competition," the RBA said. In Australia, since the escalation of the Middle East conflict, the RBA observed funding conditions tighten ...

Government looks to better define roles of regulators

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
... regulators in financial services. I think there are different critical roles. There's an importance in having a competition regulator, in having a prudential regulator, in having a conduct regulator, in having a regulator such as AUSTRAC dedicated ...

ASIC launches beneficial ownership transparency review

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2026
... forms. ASIC also wants to discuss any compliance cost implications and the likely effect the reforms will have on competition. ASIC details its intentions in Consultation Paper 387 Enhanced beneficial ownership disclosure - Proposed legislative instrument ...

Big super to work with Canadian counterparts to drive investment

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
... dealings with several of the Canadian funds involved, having worked together as co-investors many times and also in competition. "To formalise a relationship with these funds, where we can lean into issues around policy reform that will support private ...

US exceptionalism may have peaked: ART

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
... world, where the geopolitical angle is very much front and centre. We are in a multi polar world where great power competition, in an economic sense, in a defence sense, is going to be a regular and ongoing feature," Parker said. "The other thing that's ...

Research reveals 'alarming spike' in super switching

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2026
... third-party influences and not by long-term professional financial planning in their best financial interests. "Healthy competition and choice are long-term features of Australia's super system, but that is not what appears to be occurring here," SMC ...