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Macquarie raked over the coals again by ASIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... February 2024, it failed to correctly report at least 73 million short sales. The regulator, however, believes the scale of total misreporting could be between 298 million and 1.5 billion short sales. ASIC also contends that Macquarie incorrectly reported ...

Criminal attacks, human error drive data breaches

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... 25% in 2024; 54 or 9% of which occurred at financial services organisations. New statistics from the OAIC show there was a total of 1113 notifications received about data breaches in the 2024 calendar year. In 2023, there was 893. Of the 1113, 595 came ...

Cbus increases insurance premiums

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
Cbus will increase insurance fees for death and total and permanent disability (TPD) cover from July 5. Those aged between 15 and 25 will see their fees remain the same, but those in older age brackets will be paying slightly more each week. For members ...

Labor vs Liberal: Which government is better for Australian stocks?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... the MSCI World ex-Australia Index by an annualised 0.1% under Coalition governments, and by 0.3% under Labor. "Given that total returns over the period were nearly 11%, the magnitude of underperformance in both cases is trivial," he said. "The bigger ...

TPD claim settlements take 'considerably longer': Rainmaker

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
New group insurance research finds that total permanent disability (TPD) claims are taking much longer to process, while death claims appear to have more efficient processes in place. According to Rainmaker's latest benchmarking data, a total of ...

'Lunatic' tariffs can directly hit Australia: Academics

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... away with a lot of other stuff he's talking about," he said. In 2023, the US accounted for only 12.9% of China's total exports, according to the Observatory of Economic Complexity database. China's exports are spread out across the rest of ...

Vista Equity Partners, S64 to bring strategy to APAC

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
... parties said. The rollout aims to capitalise on the "largest and fastest growing" software sector, projected to hit the total addressable market of US$59 trillion by 2027 at a growth rate of approximately 17%. The sector is accessible and presents strong ...

Australian private capital sector totals $139bn: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
Total Australia-focused assets under management (AUM) remained steady at $139 billion in 2024, with private equity, venture capital (VC), and private credit funds accounting for nearly half at $65 billion, according to the Australian Private Capital ...

Platinum to lose $1bn mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... an acceleration of planned cost savings to be delivered in FY26," Platinum said. Reporting to the ASX, Platinum recorded total funds under management as at April end of $9.64 billion. This figure includes the mandate that has now been terminated, the ...

Life insurance premiums edge lower

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... million decline from the previous year - according to DEXX&R. The market research firm's latest Life Analysis report showed total new individual risk premiums dropped 18.5% over the year, falling to $1.11 billion. This includes policies covering death ...