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Future Fund bags a piece of Transgrid

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... billion sovereign wealth fund's risk and return objectives and will help safeguard the portfolio from higher inflation, interest rates, and currency volatility. Future Fund director of infrastructure Peter McCosker, meanwhile, said the investment, which ...

ASIC takes Block Earner case to High Court

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... seeking to obtain the High Court's ruling on what falls within the definition of financial product and clarify when interest-earning products and products involving a conversion of assets from one form into another are regulated. "The definition ...

Nest drops $930m into new IFM Investors fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
After taking a 10% stake in the investment giant, UK pension fund Nest will seed a new infrastructure debt fund from IFM Investors. Last month, Nest officially became IFM Investors' first international owner, now sitting alongside the existing 15 industry ...

Equip Super, TelstraSuper terminate merger plans

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
Equip Super and TelstraSuper will no longer merge, with the latter saying it was unlikely to achieve its objectives. TelstraSuper has decided to terminate the Heads of Agreement the two funds signed late last year, concluding it was not going to be ...

Chalmers and Bragg spar over $3m super tax

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... concessional compared to the marginal rate that people would be paying." Bragg claimed there was a "howling conflict of interest" in having the Treasurer set the Prime Minister's pension arrangements and called for Chalmers to include the detail of the ...

Alternatives spark 'real' opportunities for HNW advisers

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... differentiate their offer." Further, among the asset class, private equity remains a "common" holding, but there is growing interest in areas such as infrastructure, water rights, venture capital and hedge funds. Orrock added that while private markets ...

Canadian Securities Exchange to acquire National Stock Exchange of Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
NSX Limited (NSX), the operator of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, has entered into a Scheme Implementation Deed with CNSX Markets, the market operator of the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE). Under the agreement, CNSX will acquire all remaining ...

Zurich fined over false and misleading statements

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
Zurich Australia has paid two infringement notices totalling $37,560 issued by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) over alleged false and misleading statements to two policyholders. In May 2024, Zurich declined two trauma insurance ...

Super funds covet more global equities: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
Superannuation funds substantially upped holdings in global equities but scaled back on cash, as well as local fixed income and equities in the second half of 2024, new analysis from J.P. Morgan shows. The latest Super Fund Manager Radar note shows ...

RBA cut expected, but then what?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is expected to cut interest rates when it meets next week by 25 basis points, bringing the official cash rate down to 3.85%. However, Commonwealth Bank (CBA) head of Australian economics Gareth Aird said he is not ...