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Treasury seeks feedback on foreign investment reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2025
... interest and national security are protected. Treasury has asked stakeholders to provide feedback on an automatic approval pathway so that certain low-risk investments would require notification but not approval before proceeding. The government is also ...

Betashares launches new global equity ETFs

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2025
... from markets that dominate global benchmarks, helping investors reduce portfolio concentration risk. It will provide a pathway for Australian investors to diversify away from over-concentration in US equities, which currently make up 70% of developed ...

Retirees could be out up to $136k: SMC

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2025
A report by the Super Members Council (SMC) suggests the complex retirement system in Australia could be costing retirees up to $136,000. The modelling underscores the long-awaited need for financial advice reforms, and simpler, smarter pathways to ...

Housing Australia Future Fund under audit

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2025
The government's Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) is being audited by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO), Auditor-General Caralee McLiesh has confirmed in a letter to Senator Andrew Bragg. In addition, McLiesh said the ANAO is also ...

Actuaries Institute makes proposal to close advice gap

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... to support members and complex financial advice regulations. "The HGA framework, supported by DBFO reforms, provides a pathway to resolve this 'Trustee Dilemma' while enabling funds to better serve their members," it said. It said while the DBFO reforms ...

Russell Investments launches private markets offering

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2025
... offering advised clients exposure to private assets. The Cornerstone Private Markets Managed Portfolio offers an advised pathway into private equity, private credit and real assets. The minimum initial investment of $25,000 gives investors access to ...

Feature: Group insurance | Cold comfort

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
For much of the past year or so, there has been a great deal of focus on the superannuation industry and its processing of insurance claims, largely owing to immense delays at some of the largest institutions. Stories have emerged of the likes of AustralianSuper ...

Rest injects more into $1.2bn Fidelity climate fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
... this through a climate impact framework that ensures each asset is renovated to improve energy efficiency and develop a pathway to net zero. Its assets are all in Europe, where the vast majority of buildings are more than two decades old. The fund so ...

Super risks continue as advice gets all clear

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2025
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) has released its Systemic Issues Insights Report for the second half of FY25. The report highlighted that delays in processing superannuation rollovers and withdrawals remain a recurring systemic ...

Can IPOs ever recover? Experts aren't sure

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... secondary market didn't really exist in Australia," Lyons said. "The private-public merger has evolved as another pathway to get companies listed, and then there are traditional M&A takeovers, as well as private takeovers. "I think the markets have ...