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HSBC Bank fined $35m in landmark scam-protection failures

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2026
... 2024. Many of the scammers accessed victims' accounts by impersonating HSBC Australia staff. The bank took 144 days on average to investigate the issues. ASIC held HSBC Australia against the ePayments Code, which regulates electronic payment facilities. ...

ATO reveals highest paid jobs, postcodes

VINNY VUCAGO  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2026
... 2023-24 showed postcode 3944, encompassing Portsea on Victoria's Morning Peninsula, recorded the nation's highest average taxable income at $321,988. The result marks the first time a Victorian postcode has topped the national rankings, ending ...

Passive ETFs continue to dominate domestic market

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2026
... monthly adoptions and investments of index ETFs have accelerated significantly over the past decade. Net flows rose from an average of around $431 million per month in 2015 to approximately $4.5 billion per month in the last 12 months to May end. Observing ...

IFM lifts stake in Atlas Arteria to 40% after upping offer price

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2026
... offer. "IFM has paid more than its initial offer price in a number of previous public market situations with increases on average of circa 38% relative to the initial offer price," Atlas Arteria said. It gave the examples of Aleatica where IFM raised ...

Former APRA deputy chair launches retirement solutions startup

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2026
... was driven by the growing confusion retirees face in evaluating competing strategies and product claims. "How does the average retiree know what is a sensible approach to follow? How can they tell what the actual benefits are, and if they are truly suited ...

FEATURE | Aged care: The longevity dividend

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2026
... rise as demand continues to grow. Truong says companies that operate in the aged care housing sector say market rents on average need to rise around another 20% to 25% for developers to be incentivised to build new assets - something which is expected ...

Investment performance will not help smaller balances: Research

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2026
... (fixed income), provide the most consistent outcomes for modest balances," Le said. "All-equity strategies deliver higher average ending balances but carry sharper drawdown risks, while bond-heavy portfolios virtually guarantee capital erosion when withdrawals ...

ASX sees trade volumes soar in May

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2026
... total trades, representing a 42% increase in the financial year to the end of the month. It also saw a 37% increase in average daily trades of over 2.6 million transactions, compared to 2.07 million average daily trades in the same month last year. In ...

What does a world with 'zero migration' look like?

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2026
... by the fact that, although earnings vary across the skill distribution, migrants typically earn below the host-country average and are concentrated in lower-earning sectors." In the long-run, however, the productivity hit would compound the labour supply ...

Retirement fears persist despite rising preparedness: CFS

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2026
... reality. Australians would ideally like to retire at age 62 but expect they will need to continue working until 66 on average. At the same time, the amount Australians believe is required for a comfortable retirement has surpassed $1 million for the ...