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Coalition's super for housing policy 'unlikely to continue': Bragg

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2025
Shadow Housing Minister Andrew Bragg has confirmed the Coalition's controversial super for housing policy is under review. "I'm open minded as to whether there's a way it can be re-cut, but as it stands, it's unlikely to continue as our ...

AMP, Perpetual, Ironbark shutter funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2025
AMP, Perpetual and Ironbark have all announced they will be shuttering funds as they lack viability. AMP said it made the decision to terminate the AMP Capital Equity Fund (AMP Equity Fund), effective August 29. "The fund's small and reducing size may ...

World's pension market hits $36.9tn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
... landscape. Macroeconomic volatility, geopolitical shifts and concentrated market risks are reshaping return expectations. The current backdrop has tested even well-diversified portfolios, highlighting the difficulty of today's investment environment. ...

Allow couples tax-free super splitting: Hume

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
A bill that would allow couples to split their collective superannuation balances evenly between them to improve the gender super gap was tabled in Parliament yesterday. The Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Tackling the Gender Super Gap) Bill 2025 ...

InterPrac wants super funds' reserves to remediate Shield, First Guardian victims

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
InterPrac Financial Planning wants to rid itself of remediation obligations regarding the collapse of the Shield Master Fund and First Guardian Master Fund, saying that victims should be "fully compensated" via superannuation funds' reserves. InterPrac ...

BlackRock nabs $122bn Citi mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
BlackRock has been tapped by Citi Wealth to create a new portfolio offering for its clients - Citi Portfolio Solutions powered by BlackRock. The offering will combine the strategic investment advisory and planning capabilities of the leading global ...

FEATURE: Hyped up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... online bullying] and the spread of misinformation and so forth," Davis says. Now is the time, he says, to ensure that the current AI boom doesn't end up as a bubble bursting and that it is not misused or turned into a 'tech monster'. "This ...

Igneo Infrastructure Partners expands leadership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
The infrastructure manager has named two new partners, with one also being appointed to the role of global head of capital formation. Carolyn Pearce and Daniel Timms have been appointed as partners at Igneo, the infrastructure arm of First Sentier Investors. ...

Pacific Current Group hunts new chief financial officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
The chief financial officer of Pacific Current Group will retire on November 30. After serving as Pacific Current Group's chief financial officer for more than six years, Ashley Killick is retiring from the role. He first joined in March 2019 in an ...

Investors want regulatory clarity on digital assets: Binance

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
... of Bitcoin to surge past $229,000 (US$150,000) in the next six months, while almost half (47%) expect it to retain its current value. Binance said Bitcoin has been one of the "best-performing" assets, almost doubling in value over the past 12 months ...