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AFM, PGIM announce exit from Qld retirement village developer

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
Having first invested over $70 million in retirement village operator Aura in 2024, both Assembly Funds Management (AFM) and PGIM have agreed an early exit from their positions. AFM invested in Aura via its Real Estate Private Equity series and will ...

Former ASIC deputy chair Crennan steps in as York St Capital chair

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
York St Capital has appointed former ASIC deputy chair Daniel Crennan as chair. York St Capital is a Melbourne-based multi-asset investment firm focused on digital assets, commodities and real estate. It has recently expanded its presence into the United ...

Macquarie AM to deliver over 100MW in South Korea

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
... acquisition of Hanam Data Centre in August 2024 and its plan to develop a data centre campus worth over $240 million in Sydney last year. Under a joint venture between South Korea's Gabia, a cloud-based specialist, and MAM's Macquarie Asia Pacific Infrastructure ...

US exceptionalism may have peaked: ART

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
... Parker said. "The other thing that's worth acknowledging - and we've certainly done a lot of work on this in the last year or two, and speaking to pension funds overseas, they've also done a lot of work on this - is basically looking at the ...

Cbus calls for tax reform on TPD payouts in pre-Budget submission

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
... web of rules and can pay up to 22% tax on claims. The average Cbus TPD claim was sitting at around $103,000 last financial year. Cbus chief executive Kristian Fok said removing tax on all TPD claims, not just those paid after age 60, would make the system ...

Vanguard pays $40m in ESG antitrust lawsuit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2026
... to ensure coal production slowed and prices rose, in what was called an example of anti-competitive trade practices. Last year, the fund managers were unsuccessful in attempts to have the case dismissed. Now, Vanguard has decided to settle, paying $41.6 ...

Financial services' gender pay gap improves at 21.4%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2026
... hand, women are 1.4 times more likely than men to be in the lowest quartile of earners with an average salary of $60,000 per year. "The fact that men are nearly twice as likely as women to be in the highest paid roles and that women still dominate the ...

Structural headwinds driving Australian capital offshore: Redican

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2026
... federal government has a target to build 1.2 million homes over the next five years, an estimated 25% growth in the supply year-on-year. "How would the Reserve Bank react to that if housing investment was about to rise by 25%? Already it is saying the ...

TAL to create Pathways for simpler mental health claims

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2026
... blanket mental health exclusions despite the requirement to assess customer's individual circumstances from a report last year. Despite the Council of Australian Life Insurers (CALI) is now developing an industry action plan to address the exacerbating ...

Life insurer sanctioned for invalid access to customer information

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2026
The Life Insurance Code Compliance Committee (Life CCC) has sanctioned a life insurer for collecting customers' medical information without valid medical authority for four years. According to the committee, the unnamed insurer collected medical information ...