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Major super reforms cost members $670m in death benefits: ASFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2026
... for 16 months. Under PMIF, default insurance cover was removed for members under 25 and for anyone with an account balance below $6000. ASFA estimated that five million individual accounts lost insurance cover as a result of this. ASFA chief policy and ...

Equity Trustees lands new mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
... highest-conviction ideas - companies with mispriced value and cashflows, high quality growth businesses, and businesses trading below asset backing."

Productivity slumps again, capital injection needed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2026
... capital inputs are combined to produce outputs, declined over the 12 months to June 2025. MFP decreased by 0.5% over 2024-25, below the 20-year average of 0.4% growth per year and well below the 1.6% annual average increases between 1994-95 to 2003-04. ...

Super outflows persist but profits up at Insignia Financial

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2026
... management and administration and the continued execution of our cost-out program," Hartley said. "Pleasingly we have reduced below the line cash costs from $153 million to $16 million which has greatly improved our NPAT result." Profits in the advice ...

Challenger results a 'headline miss'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2026
... miss" on expectations. "CGF today announced its financial results for 1H26, delivering a headline miss with Life profit below expectations, partially offset by higher funds management," Ord Minnett said. "Normalised net profit after tax (NPAT) $229 million ...

Bullish on AI? Don't buy US tech: Vanguard

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2026
... grow by 3%. It said solid growth and still-sticky inflation will leave the Federal Reserve with limited room to cut rates below Vanguard's 3.5% estimate of the neutral rate, which would neither promote nor restrict economic activity.

GQG reports increased FUM despite $5.5bn outflows

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2026
... outflows. "[GQG's] core global strategy was near the bottom of peers on 2025 returns, with EM and quality strategies well below average, leading to six consecutive months of net outflows totalling ~US$12 billion in 2H25," Morgan Stanley said. "Our ...

GQG sees $6bn outflows in a month

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2026
... manager. "[GQG's] core global strategy was near the bottom of peers on 2025 returns, with EM and quality strategies well below average, leading to six consecutive months of net outflows totalling ~US$12bn in 2H25," Morgan Stanley said. "Our tracking ...

RBA gives bleak economic outlook

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2026
... rate follows the market path, Australian GDP growth is projected to pick up further in the near term, before declining to below estimates of potential growth," the SoMP said. The RBA projects that from late 2026 onwards, GDP growth is expected to be ...

Spain plans sovereign wealth fund launch

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2026
... Global Financial Crisis. However, the research showed Spain struggles with a productivity issue, with productivity rates well below the European average. It was suggested significant investment in AI could help turn this around.