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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
... and with the Rio Tinto, BOC Gases and Toyota corporate funds. We will continue to explore further growth, however our current scale enables us to maintain our primary focus which will always be delivering the best possible retirement outcomes for our ...

AFCA looks to expand jurisdiction over receiving banks in scams

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) is opening public consultation on a string of governance changes, with a key focus on expanding its jurisdiction to include receiving banks in scam complaints. Following an engagement with an external ...

Alternatives spark 'real' opportunities for HNW advisers

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
There are an increasing number of high-net-worth (HNW) investors using alternative assets to diversify, protect against inflation and lessen returns related to the public markets, with Praemium saying advisers should look to capitalise from this trend. ...

Canadian Securities Exchange to acquire National Stock Exchange of Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... This has resulted in renewed focus on an appropriate listings framework for small and emerging companies, revision of current listing rules, review of our technology stack and services, and a new team with extensive local and global exchange experience." ...

Tariffs were never the answer: Experts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... "I would say in the longer-run sense, the US has the stronger hand, but China have played their hand very well in this current situation and Xi Jinping would have come out of this feeling more confident in dealing with the US." "But, in the long run ...

RBA cut expected, but then what?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... rate of 3.35% and our base case has the RBA cutting the cash rate by 25bp in May, August and November." Aird said the current state of the global economy is too uncertain at this stage for the RBA to feel confident to hint at more cuts. "US trade policy ...

Relaxed superannuation preservation rules will sink returns: Frontier

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
A Frontier report, commissioned by the Super Members Council, has argued that current preservation rules provide super funds with the flexibility to invest in unlisted assets, and warned that permanently relaxing these rules will decrease long-term ...

Inside Colonial First State's fund manager selection overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... our own objectives of delivering consistent performance over rolling three-year periods." He said that many of CFS's current managers have "a few more degrees of freedom" than those it's used in the past, whose fishing pond was in very narrow ...

FTX creditors await US$5bn distribution

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
Collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX is set to pay out US$5 billion to creditors starting May 30. The proceeds will be distributed via the FTX Recovery Trust to eligible creditors either on BitGo or Kraken. This is the second round of distributions ...