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FEATURE: Private equity | Time to deploy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2026
... which for a super fund is often ideal. "In listed companies, often they'll focus really on the short-term earnings rather than long-term value, and that's because of things like the media scrutiny and quarterly reporting requirements," she says. ...

Spheria launches active ETF for small caps fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2026
... self-sufficiency, while fracturing the US security umbrella and embedding geopolitics as a structural driver of asset prices rather than an episodic risk to be faded," he said. "As a response investor flows have picked up in select hedges: energy producers ...

Strengthen Life Code for mental health crisis, claims handling: Review

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2026
... checklist, nor does it require customers to self-identify or disclose sensitive circumstances when they do not wish to. Rather, insurers proactively considering potential risk factors for vulnerability that may indicate the need for support. "This can ...

Super Consumers Australia raises concerns over Treasury reforms

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2026
... constructed, compensation may exceed capital loss alone, including where losses are assessed across individual products rather than by reference to the consumer's overall portfolio position." Treasury poses a key policy question of if the 'but for' approach ...

FEATURE: Global equities | Triaging tech's second act

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2026
... capital-intensive investment-led regime, creating opportunities for active investors to identify winners in the supply chain rather than relying solely on headline tech names," Powell says. While the Magnificent 7 stocks will continue to play an important ...

Viridian targets double-digit growth

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2026
... can all make as an industry that will impact people's confidence in the execution delivery of advice," he said. "So rather than seeing your clients once, twice or four times a year depending on an arrangement, actually turning that around and being ...

Calm urged as global markets look 'increasingly unstable'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2026
... markets are beginning to look more like a game of Jenga, with the tower increasingly unstable as more supports are removed rather than reinforced. The era of low inflation, strong growth and abundant conviction is behind us, at least for now," Neiron ...

Digital assets framework bill passes, paves the way for consumer confidence

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2026
... stablecoin framework." CloudTech Group also supports the Bill, which it said focuses on regulating platforms and custodians rather than the underlying technology, supporting not only consumers but institutional investors and financial advisers that are ...

Australians lose $13.5bn by delaying retirement switch: HESTA

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2026
... "The research finds every eligible member cohort analysed is better off when they have access to a retirement phase option rather than staying in accumulation," Blakey said. "That's why we're calling for a well-designed default mechanism that ...

Potential US recession in three years: Global insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2026
... have involved selective hedging or diversifying dollar risk - for example, through allocations to emerging market assets - rather than selling US assets. And the Middle East war has highlighted that the Dollar can also help diversify risks from rising ...