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Government looks to better define roles of regulators

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
... governance and accountability for managed investment schemes, and this is an issue which has been on the public agenda for a long time. It's a complex issue," Mulino said. "We know that managed funds, managed investment schemes (MIS) in particular ...

FAAA urges inclusion of advisers on occupational shortage list

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026
... Abood said the advice industry is struggling with a decline in adviser numbers which is not being offset by new entrants; a long training gap and legislated professional year requirements which create a four-year structural lag in workforce supply; and ...

Rest 'diversifies its diversifiers' with US neighbourhood malls

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2026
... scales." Bambrook said since majority of Rest's members are decades away from retirement, the investment will benefit from long-term demographic shifts, particularly millennials entering their peak spending years and the growth of higher-density urban ...

Challenger slashes offer price for Pepper Money

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2026
... of the total Pepper Money shares. Challenger had then said an investment in Pepper Money will provide it with strategic, long-term rights to access fixed income assets to support growth and returns. Pepper Money said the revised offer was due to "deterioration ...

Influx of data weighing on legacy systems

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2026
... hard to solve". "The main problem we face is that institutions have their own legacy systems which have been there for a long time, and what happens is it creates a ceiling for what is possible to achieve," Singh said. "Combined with that is the fact ...

Another RBA hike in May 'not a done deal'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2026
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) hiked the cash rate by 0.25% to 4.1% at yesterday's meeting, citing a "material risk" that inflation will stay above the central bank's target range of 2-3%. The decision to hike was all but split, with five voting ...

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," ...

L1 Group eyes golden returns with new LIC

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2026
... opportunistic investments in other precious metals. The strategy will seek to deliver positive, absolute returns over the medium to long term through a fundamental, bottom-up approach using long and short positions. L1 Group said following a prolonged ...

Index managed portfolios still most popular among advisers: North

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2026
... markets is reshaping portfolio construction. Many of today's capital-intensive growth opportunities are funded privately long before they ever reach listed markets, yet until recently there were limited practical ways for retail clients to access ...

ASIC warns Gen Z against chasing unrealistic crypto gains

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2026
... cryptocurrency and the like could be setting them up for failure, setting unrealistic expectations on returns, price volatility and long-term investing. A national survey conducted by YouGov found around one in four Gen Z Australians owns crypto; 66% ...