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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 ...

WAM eyes Platinum LIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
Wilson Asset Management (WAM) is making a play to be the investment manager of a Platinum Asset Management listed investment company, offering a non-binding, indicative proposal. WAM is proposing to take over the investment management function of ASX-listed ...

Some Australians being taxed more on super than pay: SMC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... middle and low-income retirees in the middle wealth group have been the biggest beneficiaries of compulsory super, with an extra $11,388 to spend each year. The SMC analysis also found without compulsory super, half a million more Australians would rely ...

Norway sovereign wealth fund divests 11 Israeli companies, cuts mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
Norway's US$2 trillion sovereign wealth fund has severed ties with 11 Israeli companies and is in the process of terminating mandates with external managers based in Israel. The sovereign wealth fund's manager, Norges Bank Investment Management ...

PC recommends switch to digital financial reporting

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2025
An interim report from the Productivity Commission (PC) has recommended Australian companies switch to digital financial reporting to allow for data to be better extracted. The report looked at how Australia can better harness the data contained in ...

Special feature: Shaping private markets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
Custodians are stepping up as regulators target super funds' $3.5 trillion private asset rush. Australia's super funds face mounting scrutiny over their rapid shift into private markets, as concerns grow about transparency, valuations and liquidity ...

Former CBA chief economist joins UniSuper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
UniSuper has announced that former Commonwealth Bank (CBA) chief economist Stephen Halmarick will join its investment committee as an independent (non-director) member. The $149 billion super fund said Halmarick will commence his tenure on 1 August ...

FAAA fights to reignite Dixon inquiry

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
... FY25/26 year, something like $1,295 per adviser," Anderson explained. "But that excludes the amount above the cap which is an extra $47.5 million, which the minister is going to have to decide what to do about. "We hope that the minister makes a decision ...

Investments, advice complaints jump 18%

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2025
... Firms have more work to do to ensure fair responses to complaints are delivered earlier, without people having to take the extra step of coming to us."

GQG assets hit record high despite underperformance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2025
GQG Partners' assets jumped $4 billion to reach a record high of US$172.4 billion for the 2025 financial year despite experiencing "short-term relative underperformance". "We have continued to position our portfolios defensively, and as a result ...