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My Dealer Services partners to enhance adviser education

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
The Sydney-based firm has secured access to Colonial First State's (CFS) FirstTech division for the more than 400 financial advisers within its network. The educational partnership provides My Dealer Services (MDS) adviser members with the "most up ...

New impact fund backs marginalised female entrepreneurs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
Social purpose organisation Good Return has launched its second impact fund, aimed at supporting marginalised female entrepreneurs across the Asia-Pacific region. The evergreenfund is seeking to raise $10 million from Australian wholesale investors ...

Splintered globalisation a boon for AI, metals, EVs: PGIM

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
As geopolitical tensions and trade wars derail globalisation, artificial intelligence (AI), metals and minerals, and electric vehicles (EV) are some of the sectors poised to be winners for investors, new research from PGIM shows. This new era of globalisation ...

Tranche 2 of DBFO dumps SOAs, enables 'nudges'

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
The long-awaited Tranche 2 of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes draft package has been released, switching Statements of Advice for Client Advice Records and clarifying what topics super funds can collectively charge for. However, some elements ...

Vanguard ETFs record most consistent monthly net flows: Research

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
Vanguard ETFs have recorded the most consistent inflows of any manager over the past two years, according to Rainmaker Information. Over the two years to December 2024, monthly net flows to its ETFs showed an autocorrelation of 0.59 - a statistical ...

State Super: In decline but doing fine

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
State Super closed its main defined benefit schemes in 1985 and 1992, meaning the fund is on a long slow march to completion. Its chief executive John Livanas unpacks the challenges of managing a fund with no new members and an inevitable end. State ...

SQM places private credit sector on watch

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
SQM Research has placed the private credit sector on watch, saying it is increasingly encountering red flags when rating offerings. The research house has been covering private credit since 2007. SQM currently rates on some 70 private credit funds across ...

Jones calls out super sector, hints at more reform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones told Financial Standard that the government's work on reforming the superannuation sector is not done. Speaking on the Financial Standard podcast, Jones praised the positive aspects ...

Super fund consolidation to accelerate: Mercer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
Australia's superannuation industry is poised for accelerated consolidation, with most existing funds set to disappear, according to a Mercer report. The report noted that during the 2023/24 financial year, the number of APRA-regulated super funds declined ...

Skills gap crisis costing Australia $3.5bn a year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
School-leaver job uncertainty and the widening skills gap is costing the Australian economy billions of dollars every year, according to a new report by Year13 and HEDx. The report, which highlights the challenges faced by students in post-school transition ...