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S64, Ardian partner to launch new fund

ELIZA BAVIN | MONDAY, 23 MAR 2026

... primaries Jan Philipp Schmitz said. "Infrastructure offers recurring cash yield, inflation protection, and historically lower volatility, making it a powerful addition to investor portfolios. "By combining the value creation potential of direct investments ...

FSC questions SMC's claim on younger members' super switches

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | MONDAY, 23 MAR 2026

... Australia's super system, but alarm bells should be ringing when data shows a clear skew towards younger people and people with lower balances starting to be switched into more complex, higher cost products," SMC chief executive Misha Schubert said. ...

Treasury downgrades productivity assumptions

ELIZA BAVIN | FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2026

... migration is 45% below its peak, but Treasury expects the fall to be more modest over the forecast period, mainly due to lower than expected departures," Chalmers said. "Treasury's fertility assumption will also be revised down to reflect lower expected ...

Chalmers says Budget will make 'hard decisions'

ELIZA BAVIN | THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026

... headline inflation and double the negative impact on GDP," Chalmers said. "In the short-term case, output would be 0.2% lower around the middle of this year but this gap would quickly close because the shock is short lived. But the more prolonged scenario ...

Government looks to better define roles of regulators

ELIZA BAVIN | THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026

Minister for financial services Daniel Mulino said the government is looking into the information various regulatory bodies seek from the financial services industry to cut red tape. "We rightly, I believe, have multiple regulators in financial services. ...

Influx of data weighing on legacy systems

ELIZA BAVIN | WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2026

... the issue is that advisers and portfolios sit across multiple different systems and multiple different databases. When the lower layers have to reach out, they end up spanning multiple different databases, which causes latencies, performance bottlenecks ...

Another RBA hike in May 'not a done deal'

ELIZA BAVIN | WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2026

... Bassanese said he believes the conflict in the Middle East will have ended by May, meaning oil prices will be materially lower. "That said, my view is that this would still not be enough to stop the RBA hiking again in May, given the prospect of a further ...

Massive Acenda job cuts ire former staff

KARREN VERGARA | TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2026

... expected to take place. "The first tranche saw approximately 85 upper middle management roles cut, followed by around 150 lower middle management roles, and a third round of more than 50 further redundancies. The union has now heard reports of further ...

Active equity managers underwhelm in 2025: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA | TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2026

While 2025 was ripe for stock picking and active fund managers thanks to dispersion widening, according to the latest SPIVA Scorecard, the majority still failed to beat the benchmark. Australian active managers' performance in 2025 proved to be "underwhelming," ...

Inflation could surge above 4%

ELIZA BAVIN | FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2026

... to use the jargon, which means that higher cost for firms is likely to reduce their output, but it also weakens demand, lower consumption spending, the impact of uncertainty on households and companies type of financial conditions, and that's not ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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