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Treasury seeks feedback on major super tax reform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2025
... - Treasury Laws Amendment (Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions) Bill 2025 - proposes to amend the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997, Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997, and the Taxation Administration Act 1953 - to introduce a new Division ...

Vanguard identifies strongest asset classes for coming decade

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... the full technology cycle. "Overall, these three investment opportunities are both offensive and defensive. This risk assessment holds no matter whether today's AI exuberance ultimately proves rational or not," the report said. Vanguard global chief ...

Morningstar moves to pay-for-play model

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2025
... of Australian private credit and private equity funds from next year, picking Metrics Credit Partners for its first assessment.

ASX suffers another outage

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025
... calling out the exchange numerous times throughout the year for poor practices. In September, the RBA released its 2025 Assessment of the ASX Clearing and Settlement (CS) Facilities, slamming the market operator for continued failures. The RBA determined ...

Morningstar widens private credit coverage, kicks off with Metrics

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... of Australian private credit and private equity funds from next year, picking Metrics Credit Partners for its first assessment. The research house said that while the private credit ratings will be available in early 2026, the private equity ratings ...

FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
In the book The Lucky Country, the late author Donald Horne provides a piercing assessment of Australia in 1964, stating that its prosperity is derived from good fortune rather than industriousness or ambition. He ruminated about the future challenges ...

IMF tells Chalmers to curb spending

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2025
... reforms around technology, competition, labor markets, and the green transition." Treasurer Jim Chalmers said overall the assessment was positive for the outlook for the economy. "Under Labor, inflation is around a third of its peak, debt is down, real ...

RBA says it can 'afford to be patient' on rate decisions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2025
... coming months or if productivity growth proved to be weaker than expected." Members also said if the board changed its assessment that monetary policy was still slightly restrictive, it would also be more inclined to leave the official cash rate where ...

Super funds a "standout" in risk and compliance hiring: Kaizen

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2025
... and cyber and data risk modelling remain in high demand. Policy development, regulatory compliance monitoring, risk assessment and management, internal control evaluation, training and education, people management and audit were the skills most in the ...

HESTA, Vision Super divest Israeli securities

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
... exited holdings in several banks listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and bonds issued by the state of Israel due to an assessment of higher risk," a HESTA spokesperson said. Last week, Vision Super reportedly dumped investments in Israeli stocks and ...