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Zenith reaffirms Metrics ratings amid doubts

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2025
... they've had to evolve," Sebire said "The Korean National Pension Service (NPS) just took a 4% stake in Metrics... you would hope that the NPS did a lot of due diligence in terms of understanding the framework and whether that was consistent with ...

ASIC takes aim at super, private markets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2025
ASIC commissioner Simone Constant says that three years into the Retirement Income Covenant, things are "not where we'd hoped to be". Speaking at a FINSIA event on Friday, Constant said there is still room to improve the ways super trustees serve their ...

Binance, Franklin Templeton in digital asset partnership

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2025
Binance and Franklin Templeton have collaborated to accelerate the adoption of digital asset securities. Binance hopes to combine its global trading infrastructure and investor reach with Franklin Templeton's expertise in tokenisation of securities. ...

ASIC lands special leave against Block Earner

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... grant special leave and welcome the condition that ASIC pay costs related to the appeal. Clear regulations matter, and we hope this approach helps ensure important legal questions can be tested without placing disproportionate burdens on private companies ...

FEATURE: Hyped up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... look at the top 10 companies globally by market cap, nine out of 10 of them are in the US." In the same way mega-tech firms hope to achieve rosy ROIs, they also want a healthy return on their capital. The Big Five US tech companies, for example, saw ...

Government scraps inquiry into advice firm failures, Dixon Advisory

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
The government has dumped the inquiry into wealth management companies that would have dissected the collapse of firms like Dixon Advisory and the impact on the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR). In September 2024, the government referred the ...

In race for talent, Frontier Advisors beefs up senior ranks

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025
... Alice Berriman and Andrew Longmore have been promoted to principal consultants and Joanna Yang as senior consultant. Mahalia Hope, Keshia Audrey and Nathan Gelb moved from associates to consultants in the same round. In business services, Lee Oliphant ...

Platinum banks on merger positives amid dismal FY25 result

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025
With assets and profits down 30% in the year, Platinum Asset Management's hopes of recovery are pinned on the L1 Capital deal and subsequent rebranding to L1 Group. Releasing its final annual results yesterday evening, Platinum Asset Management confirmed ...

Inflation hits highest level in over a year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
The monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) indicator rose 2.8% in the 12 months to July 2025, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). "The 2.8% annual CPI inflation to July was up from 1.9% to June. This is the highest ...

Special feature: Hunting for value

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
Markets have all but recovered from when 'Liberation Day' threatened a meltdown, and asset classes of all flavours are pushing to new highs. But with valuations ahead of fundamentals amid uncertainty, fixed income is in focus as investors look ...