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March RBA hike now on the cards

ELIZA BAVIN | THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2026

... themselves, but whether this conflict becomes long-lived enough to impair economic growth or meaningfully alter the inflation and policy outlook. Markets can absorb shocks, but what they struggle with is duration meaning that 'time' is the tipping point ...

Digital assets don't need new regulatory logic: ASIC

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2026

... systemic stability. "The tendency to treat digital assets as fundamentally different risks repeating a familiar regulatory policy error: confusing technological novelty with economic novelty," Bollen said. Bollen noted similar claims were made during ...

Aussie super funds eye global partnerships at US summit

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2026

... help deliver long-term retirement outcomes for working Australians," IFM Investors said. IFM Investors has also released a policy blueprint outlining how Australian super funds can help bridge the funding gap for US infrastructure. ART chief investment ...

Division 296 legislation passes, LISTO to increase

MATTHEW WAI | WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2026

... still be concessionally taxed for every Australian, from the lowest earner to those with $20 million in super," ASFA chief policy and advocacy officer James Koval said. "In almost every circumstance, people will pay a lower tax rate on their super investment ...

IFM maps path for super funds to meet US infrastructure funding gap

RIDDHIMA TALWANI | MONDAY, 9 MAR 2026

IFM Investors has released a policy blueprint Revitalising US infrastructure: The pension capital advantage, to help bridge the gap in US infrastructure funding with investments from Australian superannuation funds. This comes on the back of Australian ...

ASX loses $100bn as Iran war escalates

ELIZA BAVIN | MONDAY, 9 MAR 2026

... investors all but fully priced out one of the two Fed rate cuts expected this year. Along with safe haven flows, this shift in policy expectation also pushed up the US dollar, which in turn hurt gold prices and the Australian dollar." Bassanese said ...

Major super reforms cost members $670m in death benefits: ASFA

KARREN VERGARA | FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2026

... below $6000. ASFA estimated that five million individual accounts lost insurance cover as a result of this. ASFA chief policy and advocacy officer James Koval said the research shows a significant mismatch between current policy settings and the present-day ...

What Australia must do to be at the forefront of financial innovation

MATTHEW WAI | FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2026

... financial system infrastructure, stronger collaboration between the private and public sectors, and a simpler regulatory and policy backdrop. Last year, the federal government consulted on its proposed digital asset regime in October, shortly after ASIC ...

Treasury proposes options to block victim-survivors' super going to perpetrators

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026

... comes to their victims' superannuation death benefit. A public consultation has commenced today, outlining several policy options that would see the recommendation legislated, while also making the distribution of benefits in these cases fairer and ...

Evidentia names chief investment strategist

MATTHEW WAI | THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026

... conditions with confidence, Evidentia said. Bringing more than 20 years of experience across financial markets and economic policy in both the UK and Australia, Aird was most recently head of Australian economics at the Commonwealth Bank, where he was ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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