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AI to outweigh inflation fears in fixed income markets: Allspring

VINNY VUCAGO  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2026
... expansion and more on traditional rate settings. Wise notes that could create opportunities at the front end of the US Treasury curve even as longer dated bond yields remain under pressure. "It's an environment where higher yields are creating opportunity," ...

Budget boosts fuel security, misses clean energy opportunities

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2026
With Treasury pledging a whopping $14.8 billion to boost fuel security amid the Middle East crisis, the 2026 Budget has been criticised or missing key opportunities to progress the clean energy transition. Treasurer Jim Chalmers' Strengthening Australia's ...

Investors the biggest losers in 2026 Budget

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2026
... trusts with the rates paid by workers who earn a living from wages," he explained. In a bid to protect more investors, Treasury pledged $10.3 million to ASIC to better data use when supervising managed investment schemes. This comes as the government ...

ASIC to receive $10m in FY27 to improve MIS supervision

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2026
... managed investment schemes. Additionally, the Office of the Australian Auditing and Assurance Standards Board and the Treasury will receive $7.6 million over four years from 2026-27 (and $1.4 million per year ongoing) consulting publicly on new data ...

Minimum 30% tax for discretionary trusts

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2026
... reasoned that such arrangements "provide opportunities to pay a lower rate of tax that are not available to most workers." Treasury modelling shows the wealthiest 10% of households hold over 90% of the value of private trusts, the majority of which are ...

Budget doubles down on housing supply with $2bn infrastructure push

VINNY VUCAGO  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2026
... including faster approvals processes, greater land availability and simplification of the National Construction Code. Treasury estimates such changes could generate regulatory savings of up to $3 billion annually if compliance costs are reduced by 10%. ...

Chalmers chooses 'hard road of reform' in Budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2026
... government has made to "rebuild fiscal buffers". Chalmers acknowledged global uncertainty has hit the economy, however Treasury are projecting the Budget will return to balance over the medium-term. "Australia is not immune from uncertainty and volatility ...

ASIC bans property wealth coach operating without licence

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2026
... services conduct, and other conduct related to advice, insurance, and misleading and deceptive or unconscionable behaviour. Treasury has also opened a review into the $2 trillion MIS sector off the back of the Shield Master Fund and First Guardian Master ...

Performance test reforms to curb benchmark hugging: Treasury

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2026
Treasury is addressing benchmarking-hugging incentives encouraged by the superannuation performance test in a new round of consultations that aim to overhaul several "unintended consequences" it has created over the last five years. Treasury acknowledges ...

Lead generation a 'conveyor belt of harm': Longo

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2026
... "Everyday Australians who signed up for a free super check have instead lost their life savings." Longo strongly backed Treasury's ongoing consultation on lead generator and superannuation switching activities. The government wants feedback on prescribing ...