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WAM offers global real assets exposure via new offering

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2026
... and these assets can provide strong diversification benefits to an investor's portfolio, including income generation, inflation protection, resilience in market downturns and consistent returns uncorrelated to traditional assets such as listed equities," ...

Structural reforms necessary despite global shocks: Chalmers

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2026
... businesses and future generations, and making the budget stronger, more sustainable and helping to take the pressure off inflation. These objectives put focus on an overhaul of the capital gains tax (CGT) discount and negative gearing, tax on discretionary ...

Investors the biggest losers in 2026 Budget

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2026
... clients will now have to reassess their investment vehicles and tax structures. The 50% CGT discount will be replaced with inflation-adjusted indexation as the federal government seeks to restore the taxation of real gains across all asset classes. The ...

Foreign investors housing ban extended

VINNY VUCAGO  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2026
... reform, infrastructure spending and supply side incentives.in "We will replace the 50% capital gains tax discount with inflation-adjusted indexation from 1 July 2027, to restore the taxation of real gains, and introduce a minimum tax rate of 30% on realised ...

Government pushes for investment risk taking

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2026
... Starting July 2027, the government said it will also adjust asset and fund size caps for venture capital to compensate for inflation since they were last set. It noted this will help unlock more foreign and local investment in the sector and help align ...

Chalmers overhauls negative gearing, CGT discount

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2026
... negative gearing in a bid to "level the playing field for first home buyers." The 50% CGT discount will be replaced with inflation-adjusted indexation as the federal government seeks to restore the taxation of real gains. This takes back the CGT discount ...

GQG reports nearly US$10 outflows, keeps FUM stable

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2026
... feature that allows a firm to sustain excess profits for a long period of time. "Shrinking FUM and revenue, along with inflation-like growth in salary and marketing costs, are likely to be partly offset by declining administrative expenses," Ler said ...

Perpetual to wind up fixed income fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2026
... and reigniting stagflation concerns. The war created volatility across energy, rates, equities and credit markets as inflation was re-priced, as was central bank paths and recession risks," the fund said. However, income return was a major contributor ...

RBA hikes rates, suggests more to come

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2026
... the Middle East conflict, the economy was operating beyond its full capacity, with a tight jobs market and underlying inflation that is well above its 2.5% target midpoint." The RBA also updated its forecasts for the Australian economy, now seeing growth ...

Budget to overhaul negative gearing, CGT discount, family trusts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2026
... delivery and the Budget will begin a year of more ambitious reform. Reform, which is made more, not less urgent, by global inflation and global economic uncertainty," he said. "The Budget will be calibrated for the conditions, but it will also still ...