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Equip Super launches new campaign with Supercars champion

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2026
Equip Super has welcomed supercars champion James Courtney as an ambassador to advocate early retirement planning for Australians. This comes as national research shows over half of the population doesn't have a formal financial plan. The research also ...

Former Income AM director launches fixed income advisory

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2026
... high-net-worth (HNW) clients targeting the defensive asset class. After a two-year stint at Income Asset Management, and close to 30 years' experience across New Zealand, the UK and Australia, Darryl Bruce has decided to open his own shop in Perth serving ...

Capital Group expands into Middle East

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2026
Capital Group has secured a Financial Services Permission from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of ADGM, the international financial centre of Abu Dhabi, allowing it to expand into the Middle East. Capital Group said the approval authorises ...

Life CCC spots 10.6k breaches in FY26

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2026
... Code Compliance Committee (Life CCC) has published its FY26 annual report, which saw over 10,600 breaches by insurers with close to 30,000 customers affected. Of the 10,697 breaches in FY26, a single insurer accounted for 10,105, who has been sanctioned. ...

APAC to lead in digital asset investment: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2026
... years." Further, institutional investors remain the "primary target" for APAC asset managers distributing digital assets, with close to four in five (79%) identifying institutional investors as main client base, compared with 45% targeting digitally ...

Munro Partners launches active global equities strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2026
... Growth Climate Leaders PIE Fund in April 2025, which was expanded to retail investors in June this year. Munro, which manages close to $9 billion in assets, acquired GSFM in August to strengthen its distribution capabilities across the Tasman Sea. Commenting ...

Super fund-backed Atmos raises near $3bn

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2026
... BESS - which reached the same milestone in June 2025 - Atmos has now taken 970MW of CIS-backed capacity through financial close. Atmos Renewables chief executive Nigel Baker said the financial close demonstrated Atmos' ability to progress major renewable ...

AIA snags Acenda head of products

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2026
... services experience across Switzerland and Australia. Most recently, she was the head of products and proposition at Acenda for close to five years. Before that, she was the head of wealth protection product at AMP, where she was stationed for over five ...

Super sector an important source of resilience: RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2026
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has released its latest Financial Stability Review, saying Australia has a "good degree of resilience". The RBA said private market activity in Australia has supported favourable business credit conditions over recent ...

Brookfield-owned Oaktree raises US$2bn for private credit fund

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2026
... scooping up the remaining 26% stake in the credit fund manager for US$3 billion. "The Asset-Backed Financial Fund's final close builds on Brookfield's longstanding partnership with Oaktree, which dates back to 2019," Oaktree said. "Now as an integrated ...