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American Century cuts US outlook amid tariff impacts

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
American Century Investments has revised its medium-term capital markets assumptions, which were formulated in April before US President Donald Trump's tariffs were announced. US equity return forecasts have declined, driven by falling price-to-earnings ...

Federated Hermes 'not far away' from launching Australian wholesale products

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
... launch a product - tipping towards retirement income - exclusively for Australian wholesale investors after a year of assessment. "There's a large, deep, sophisticated wholesale market [in Australia] and it's something that we ought to be part ...

Private debt leads fixed income returns: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2025
The Morningstar Fixed Income Sector Wrap found the fixed income sector has seen a robust 12 months across the board. Morningstar's qualitative research assessments currently cover 79 fixed-income strategies available to Australian investors. "It was ...

ASIC funding levy to charge advisers $46.2m

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2025
... made this issue prominent in the CRIS report along with investigating SMSF establishment advice, which includes an assessment of related AFSL policies and procedures. The levy will also spend money reviewing on how AFSLs rely on offshore service providers ...

APRA dissects retirement products for the first time

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
More than 200 retirement products managing $490 billion in members' retirement savings have come under the watchful eye of prudential regulator APRA for the first time. APRA's latest statistics for the March 2025 period breaks down the state ...

SMC backs principles-based approach to corporate governance

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
Super Members Council (SMC) has championed the flexibility of a principles-based approach to corporate governance as essential for effective oversight, risk management, and accountability, warning against a 'tick-the-box' approach in its submission ...

Investors face headwinds in integrating physical climate risks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... risks are poorly understood or underpriced. "Current market practice largely relies on climate scenarios and integrated assessment models that are 'inherently uncertain, particularly on multi-decade timespans with potential tipping points and second- ...

Super funds to take stock of information security controls

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... data and assets they protect." As such, APRA has issued all super funds an assignment. All RSEs must perform a self-assessment of their existing information security controls, which must include evaluating the effectiveness of authentication controls ...

Cointree hit with AUSTRAC fine

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... more serious regulatory response," he said. In 2024, AUSTRAC released the Money Laundering in Australia National Risk Assessment which identified the digital currency exchange (DCE) sector as being vulnerable to money laundering due to its speed, global ...

Australian Ethical calls out QBE

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... despite this, QBE's policy allows it to continue to underwrite new oil and gas projects without any restrictions, or assessment of Paris alignment. "This is out of step with its industry peers and IEA analysis that states no new oil and gas should ...